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DIED. James Conway, 78, co-founder of Mister Softee ice cream, cherished mobile purveyor of frozen delights; in Ocean City, N.J. Such was the ardor for the white trucks that when New York City officials tried to ban the familiar--to some, cloying--jingle, a public outcry forced them to back down. Launched in 1956, when Conway and his brother William drove a truck around Philadelphia giving away green ice cream on St. Patrick's Day, the company now has 600 trucks in 15 states...
...house-to-house search for insurgents and came across children sleeping next to their parents, says Martin, "except for this one guy who was working on something in the corner. My brother ordered him to turn around and put his hands up. The man turned and said, 'No, mister, no,' but he kept reaching behind him. So my brother shot him. It turns out that the man was reaching for a remote to detonate four mortars he'd strung together...
...Peanut Butter and Juliet”—a transposition of Shakespeare’s play into the American South with “two warring families at opposing truck stops”—to “The Life and Many Deaths of Mister Plumb,” Mitnick’s work is saturated with his distinctive style. In “Peanut Butter and Juliet,” the antagonism between the peanut butter sandwich and the jelly sandwich vendors ends in the invention of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. An English concentrator...
...artists today. Another popular artist, Elephant Man (O'Neil Bryant, 29) declares in one song, "When you hear a lesbian getting raped/ It's not our fault ... Two women in bed/ That's two Sodomites who should be dead." Another, Bounty Killer (Rodney Price, 33), urges listeners to burn "Mister Fagoty" and make him "wince in agony...
...International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas--the geek-world equivalent of the Super Bowl--nearly a month before it took place. (He ended up bringing Robin Williams onstage with him; Williams called Page "Mensa boy" and mocked how he talks: "Larry, do you realize you sound just like Mister Rogers...