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...market has been in no mood to listen to words of caution, even from well-known seers like Joseph Granville. When Granville issued his famous "sell everything" recommendation on Jan. 6, 1981, the Dow dropped 23.8 points in a single day. This year Granville issued The Warning, a book predicting a stock-market crash comparable to the disaster of 1929. Since the book appeared in September, the Dow has climbed 222 points. --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York
...World War II, segregation concentrated all levels of black society in Grand Boulevard, and a thriving nightclub scene attracted both blacks and whites to hear Duke Ellington, the Mills Brothers and Cab Galloway. Growing up in Pennsylvania, Alfred L. Bishop, now a funeral director on 47th Street, used to listen on his radio to Earl ("Fatha") Hines broadcasting "from the beautiful Grand Terrace theater in Chicago, Illinois." A dreamy, romantic-sounding place...
...exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry--all the fetuses in the jars. Some of them aren't much more than fetuses. But then I saw a mother whose baby weighed 1 1b. 5 oz. She was a typical teenager, liked to have a good time, dance, listen to rock music. What she did with that baby was a revelation. I like it when they put their hand under the baby's head. There's something tender about it. Mainly, she talked to him, and she made that child human for me. Because of her tremendous desire for that...
...fierce local sirocco that hurls itself at cyclonic force across the plains of eastern Colorado. It moves as a solid wall of dust, opaque and hard on the nerves of any ill-informed motorist it happens to catch. All a fool can do in these circumstances is listen to the finish of the car being grit-blasted away. Even with the windows closed, the dirt piles up on the dashboard and gathers in the folds of clothes and collects on the tongue. Coming as it does right out of the blue, a windstorm of such muscle is enough to give...
...remembers Janis. "I was aware from what people were telling me and from what I had read about Horowitz that there would be difficulties in working with such a great artist." The pedagogy was unusual. Horowitz advised against practicing too much. (He himself dislikes practicing.) Sometimes the maestro would listen while lying on the floor, offering suggestions from a prone position. "The piano is a singing instrument," he would tell Janis. "Sing, sing, sing at the piano." Horowitz, says Janis, "taught me the secrets of piano playing...