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At 18, Takako became a lathe operator at a cadmium smelter near her home in Annaka, a city on the main island of Honshu. When she began suffering mysterious pains in 1961, no one even thought to blame cadmium. As protection against the toxic metal, which is widely used for...
How the boys chose the name for their group tells much about them. Lead Singer John Fogerty, who writes most of their material, got his musical inspiration from Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley records. He learned chords from a Burl Ives songbook. Doug Clifford didn't even know how...
With a quick change of hair style, posture and camera angle, he turns into a fire-breathing Jomo Kenyatta, a smug Queen Victoria or a lurching Foreign Secretary George Brown, sputtering: "I'm having to solve the Viet Nam war, and you don't see pictures of me...
Born: Feb. 20, 1904, in St. Petersburg, son of a lathe operator.
To be sure, the son of a St. Petersburg lathe operator seemed no art lover, paused only briefly before Da Vinci's Mona Lisa in the Louvre. But he could not get enough answers when shown the fuselage of the British-French supersonic transport, Concorde, or a frog'...