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...DIED. JOHNNIE JOHNSON, 80, boogie-woogie early rock-'n'-roll pianist who gave Chuck Berry his first break in his then-popular trio, and later as Berry's bandmate and co-writer, shaped the rock legend's inventive sound; in St. Louis. Johnson, for whom Berry wrote Johnny B. Goode, played on such tunes as Maybelline, Rock and Roll Music, and Roll over Beethoven. He later backed Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, and in 2001 was introduced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
...dilemma, after eight years of military dictatorship, is that the more he tries to eradicate the Bhutto legend, the more powerful it becomes. Many Pakistanis are still bitter that Zia allowed Prime Minister Bhutto's body to be buried without a member of the family present. When news of Shahnawaz's death reached Pakistan, thousands went to the Bhutto home in Karachi to pay their respects. People burned stacks of an Urdu-language newspaper that suggested Shahnawaz may have died from alcohol and drugs. In Sind province, most business came to a standstill. Some defied the ban on entering Sind...
There is one essential difference between the legend and his successor. Rose can always laugh at himself. Cobb preferred to smile when the opposition blew a big lead. He was not much on irony; that his base-stealing records were surpassed by three black men, Wills, Lou Brock and Rickey Henderson, would not have amused him. Nor did he appreciate a generous anecdote told about him by a batting pupil. In 1960 Lefty O'Doul was asked, "What do you think Cobb would hit today?" The old outfielder guessed, "Oh, maybe .340." Then why do you say Cobb...
...there would be a point when he would get launched, and we would try to launch him. There were two different house-burning stories. I worked in a little bit of one in the book, the one where Great Grandpa came back from the Colorado gold flelds, is the legend, and the gold dust was all lost in the blaze...
...sure, Coulter's historical efforts can be highly amateurish. Her writings on the Civil War--she calls Confederate soldiers "a romantic army of legend"--could only be penned by a (Northern) dilettante. And although she has admiringly cited the work of cold war historian Ronald Radosh, he says she misinterpreted that period in Treason. "There were Soviet spies in postwar America," he says. "But McCarthy was really a nutcase ... She's like the McCarthy-era journalists in a way. She's just repeating what they said, that the only patriotic Americans are on the right." Radosh, a fellow...