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...Alfred Summers, 30, who spent more than three days buried alive in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Joplin, Mo., last week was thankful that a trained German shepherd sniffed him out. Workers began digging where the dog indicated, and soon Summers' muffled voice was heard calling for help. He will eat Thanksgiving dinner in a hospital -but in satisfactory condition...
Beacon Brass Quintet--Music of Palestrina, Aram, Joplin, Dahland and others. At Walpole State Prison Walpole. Free. Call 353-3345 for details...
...score been published when it was originally composed, people might first have gone wild about Eubie in 1899 when he wrote Charleston Rag. In that selfsame year Scott Joplin turned out Maple Leaf Rag. Eubie had an unlikely background for a composer. The son of ex-slaves, he had dropped out of school at 15. He was the only one of eleven children to live to maturity. Ragtime was regarded as indecent music; his mother never permitted him to play it in the house. Initially, Eubie toured the vaudeville circuit with Singer Noble Sissle. In 1921, with Sissle as lyricist...
...they emerged, and there they were: Duke O'Connell as Jim Morrison of The Doors, Mona Caywood-Moore as Janis Joplin, Marc Hazebrouck as Jim Croce, Jesse Bolt as Elvis Presley, and wonder of wonders, Bolt's girlfriend Erin Rhyne as a female Elvis Presley...
...this sultry New South day, Caywood-Moore was bouncing around Building Four in a frilly Janis outfit, fluffing her boa. Her surgery is only half-complete--which is why, O'Day explained, she looks nothing at all like Janis Joplin. "Maybe I could put in zits," he said thoughtfully. "Anything but get fat," said the scrawny Caywood-Moore, "I've been fat all my life...