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DIED. KENNY IRWIN, 30, up-and-coming stock-car racer; after suffering multiple injuries when he crashed into a wall at the New Hampshire International Speedway--on the same turn that killed 19-year-old Adam Petty two months ago; in Loudon...
DIED. ADAM PETTY, 19, fourth-generation member of the most celebrated family in stock-car racing; from head injuries sustained after crashing on a practice run at New Hampshire International Speedway; in Loudon...
...biggest weakness in the past was that we were a regional sport, not like baseball or basketball," says Wheeler. But with close to 1 million fans vying for more than 270,000 tickets to a recent NASCAR race in Indianapolis, Indiana, and sellout crowds from Brooklyn, Michigan, to Loudon, New Hampshire, the sport has clearly moved beyond regionalism...
Maybe folk had to age a little to seem fresh again. Certainly everyone on the Garden stage wore his years well, but the music -- in the concert and on all these new records -- sounds particularly pertinent. The gifted Loudon Wainright III lays down a raucous, respectful tune called Talking New Bob Dylan on his fine album called History (Charisma). "You keep right on changin' like you always do," he sings to Dylan, "and what's best is the old stuff still all sounds new." The thought could stand for the classic material on Good as I Been...
Among such oddballs, one might be excused for overlooking the unassuming fellow over there behind the desk who runs the Stratford Inn, a mild-mannered writer and part-time TV talk-show host named Dick Loudon. All the more so since Loudon is played by Bob Newhart, who has made a career out of trying to shrink into the scenery. As a stand-up comic in the early 1960s, Newhart created a series of dryly satirical routines in which he portrayed a well- meaning, slightly befuddled organization man trying to cope with extraordinary events, from the discovery of tobacco...