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...York last week, a seminar on the New Music drew 3,000 registrants, triple last year's attendance, when the sounds were still percolating in urban clubs. Along with performers sporting exploded haircuts, leather earrings and unisex makeup, the execs celebrated rock's sizzling summer with predictions about an even more lucrative fall. Said Organizer Tom Silverman of independent Tommy Boy Records: "People are all psyched up here. It's a changing of the guard. Instead of preaching, even the white-beards are listening." What they are hearing right now is bound to keep their toes...
Murphy is enjoying the fruits of success: a Jaguar and a Porsche, an extravagant leather wardrobe, mountains of jewelry. (Says Richard Tienken, who, with Robert Wachs, owns the Comic Strip and manages Murphy's career: "He's the only comedian who dresses like a rock star.") Richard Avedon has photographed Eddie for the cover of Rolling Stone; in its September issue, Playgirl will proclaim him one of the ten sexiest men in America; he has thunderstormed his family and friends with costly gifts. But not even Sir Derrick of the Round Table can fend off the demands...
...because he mistakenly feared that he was going blind. He died rich and respectable three decades later, bequeathing to his college at Cambridge a library of 3,000 volumes and the bookcases he had had made to hold them. On an obscure shelf of one case, in six leather-bound volumes, lay the diary of his youth; there it remained, virtually untouched for more than a century. Pieces of the private confessional, often full of errors, appeared throughout the 19th century, until the ten-volume edition of 1893 established itself as authoritative. True to its time, however, it omitted virtually...
...sleuths clearly won a victory over the forgers who seek to reap wealth while recasting history. The editors of the West German photo-weekly Stern had on April 22 dramatically announced the astounding discovery of 62 volumes of Adolf Hitler's alleged long-secret diaries. Bound in black imitation-leather covers, the magazine-size books purported to chronicle the Nazi Führer's years from 1932 to 1945. Hailed by Stern as "the journalistic scoop of the post-World War II period," the diaries were offered to other publications for serialization at up to $3 million. Rupert Murdoch's News...
...Gate, for example, is lavishly furnished, with a mirrored interior and leather couches. The students--chatting there support the image of Brown as the "friendly school" and most of them cite this as another deciding factor in their choice of schools...