Word: lappin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tantalizing new worlds of speculation for Richard Auerbach's fifth-graders in Buffalo 25 years ago. Upon opening the envelope of predictions last week, Auerbach found that his pupils had envisioned some wild and fantastic advances. Like supersonic planes crossing the Atlantic in three hours, as Michael Lappin predicted. And as David Scatter speculated, "Men may even walk on the moon." Marion Speich fantasized that there would be pushbutton telephones. Ah, but those that dreamed more down-to-earth dreams, how little they knew. "There might be a cure for cancer," thought Gail Lewis. And warmer winters in Buffalo...
...members of the Pure Cane, one of those formative, short-lived, lively and little known local bands whose main contribution to posterity has been mountains of coke cans and ashes in the living room and some fine tunes sung and soloed by Bobby in the Carsman Blues Band. Fred Lappin, the band's drummer, is amazing in his second year of playing drums, and his first band. Previous work for Fred includes occasional performances with Bonnie Raitt in Boston. Larry Coben on harmonica, an astoundingly agile player, is a student at the Berklee School of Music in Boston...