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...about 1943, garish lipstick, thrift shop dresses, hats. They also sing. Ernie Santosuosso said in the Globe last week that he was playing their album incessantly, all this is on one album plus TV. This all may be true, if "Texas Woman Blues" is any indication, it is. Mott the Hoople. Saturday, August 4th. Orpheum Theater. Tickets...
...Mott the Hoople. It was Mott the Hoople turned me on to MC Escher's graphics in the first place. It was at a time when whim dictated my album purchases. I planned to buy the album, throw away the record, and hang the cover on my wall. Instead, I discovered that Escher had produced a collected works, and in paperback. I bought it, instead of Mott the Hoople. I filed them away, at the time with people like the Kings, Alan Price, Georgie Fame, the whole one-nighters-through-the-Midlands group. The music? Who knew? Mott more...
Died. Charles S. Mott, 97, U.S. auto pioneer and philanthropist; following a severe case of influenza; in Flint, Mich. After moving his family's axle business from upstate New York to Flint in 1907, Mott sold the company to General Motors for shares of G.M. stock. He spent six decades on G.M.'s board of directors and was at one time the company's largest single stockholder. Though legendary for his personal frugality, he established the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in 1926 to finance education, health and recreation programs, and built it into one of the nation...
...money gets bigger at the national level and harder to turn down. Nevertheless Humphrey says that he declined a large gift from New York Philanthropist Stewart Mott, now a prime McGovern benefactor, in 1968 when Mott wanted Humphrey to denounce the Viet Nam War more strongly. Mott denies this, but he has tried to influence the positions of other candidates. Sounded out by Texas oil interests during the Democratic primaries this year, Edmund Muskie passed up much cash because he refused to abandon his intention of trying to lower the oil-depletion allowance. Most gifts, of course, do not come...
STEWART RAWLINGS MOTT, 34, New York City philanthropist, son of the General Motors pioneer and major stockholder Charles Stewart Mott. Gifts: McGovern, $212,361; Lindsay, $5,000; McCloskey, $5,500. Loans: McGovern...