Word: lew
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...cover picture of Mandela brought tears to my eyes. His confident smile affirmed that while we may go through difficult times, there is hope for the future as long as we embrace the ideals of this wonderful man. Maggie Lew, Grand Island, New York...
...cover picture of Mandela brought tears to my eyes. His confident smile affirmed that while we may go through difficult times, there is hope for the future as long as we embrace the ideals of this wonderful man. Maggie Lew, GRAND ISLAND...
...Mary and I really got to know Roger at the Cannes Film Festival in 1979, when he got us onto the yacht of Lew Grade, the Lord (literally; he'd been knighted) of ITV, and brought us into star-studded cocktail hours at Cannes' posh Majestic Bar; in one conversation about Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, the smartest comments were made by actor James Woods. ("MIT grad," Roger whispered knowingly.) In between the partying, he managed to keep sending pieces, mostly interviews, back to the Sun-Times. That Cannes, he said, he saw seven movies and wrote 11 columns...
...into another part of his Brisbane home. Though 70 and with two new hips, he moves lightly, returning moments later with a battered racquet. Its head is small by today's standards, but it feels heavy and unwieldy. Cooper's big break in the '57 Open was Fraser upsetting Lew Hoad in a semi-final. "Lew had an off day," says Cooper. "He could have those, but when he was on he was unbeatable. He played with such a lot of wrist. Watching [current world No. 1] Roger Federer reminds me of the way Hoad played. But Lew had such...
...DIED. Lew Anderson, 84, jazz saxophonist most famous for his six-year stint as Clarabell the Clown, Buffalo Bob Smith's sidekick on TV's seminal '50s hit, The Howdy Doody Show; in Hawthorne, New York. The popular seltzer-squirting clown was mute until the show's final episode in 1960, when a teary Anderson?whose band played in New York City clubs until the 1990s?turned to the camera and uttered the now famous, often replayed sign-off: "Goodbye, kids...