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Yada said his school district in Newport, Ore., was so poor that school was cancelled on Fridays his senior year in high school. But he said teachers made a big impact on him by volunteering their Fridays to teach out of their own homes...
...separately. Individual artists make breakthroughs that push fields forward - for example, W.C. Handy, who called himself the "Father of the Blues", was one of the first to use "blue notes" (flatted thirds and sevenths) in a published composition, and Bob Dylan, when he plugged in his instruments at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, helped create a fresh, electrified form of folk-rock. But neither Handy nor Dylan created their fields; a lot of other artists helped shape their genres as well. It takes a village to raise a child; it also takes a village, usually, to launch a musical...
Rare Indian gems earned the CARTIER DIAMOND NECKLACE once worn by the wealthy Newport socialite a record price...
Died. Larry Capune, 61, long-distance paddleboarder who logged 16,063 miles along America's coastlines during eight epic solo trips from 1964 to 1987; of cancer; in Newport Beach, Calif. The Hollywood-born lifeguard's longest journey was a 4,255-mile trek from Portland, Maine, to Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the years, he was bitten by a sea turtle, a bluefish and a dog; hit by a tanker once and by freighters twice; and smacked in the head by a Coke bottle thrown by a pier owner who said Capune was scaring the fish...
...suspects, Fred Pidge, 23 years old, of Waltham, and Francis B. De Meo, 30 years old, of Brookline, were apprehended April 12 by police in Newport News, Va., as they were allegedly attempting to burglarize a private home. Centrella said that the Virginia charges would probably be dropped "because the charges here are much more serious...