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...cited by Billboard magazine as the top female vocalist of 1967. She toured Europe and was hailed in England as the new Bessie Smith?the first (1894-1937) of the great blues belters. Ray Charles called her "one of the greatest I've heard any time." Janis Joplin, 25, probably the most powerful singer to emerge from the white rock movement, ranked her as "the best chick singer since Billie Holiday." Her troubles were over...
Died. George Washington Earp, 96, former cowboy and last of "the Fighting Earps;" in a Joplin, Mo. nursing home. First cousin to gunman, gambler and sometime cop Wyatt now sanctified by TV, George Earp rose above his Dodge City relatives to become a U.S. Marshal and Internal Revenue agent...
Texas' Sam Rayburn, House Speaker, at a Joplin, Mo. rally where he explained away his own 1948 and 1952 efforts to make Eisenhower a Democratic President : "I said Eisenhower was a good man, but I've felt since his hassle with the 83rd Republican Congress [1953-54], he has gone sour...
...Bank. In Joplin, Mo., when Audrey Pope wanted to get at her savings in order to help pay the enrollment fee and tuition at Joplin Junior College, mechanics removed $85.10 in small change from the fuel tank...
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