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Moore graduated from Ole Main High School in North Little Rock in June of 1975, running for more than 1000 yards his senior year. He has a unique running style--not exceptionally quick with his feet, Moore has a striding motion well-suited to outside running, and superb accelerating ability...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Say It Ain't So, P. Wayne | 10/7/1978 | See Source »

...been dragged along by his wife--he hunched his shoulders as though he were trying to make himself inobtrusive, and he didn't talk much. The other two were elderly gentlemen who had somehow gotten the impression that the tour was stopping for a show at the Grand Ole Opry. It wasn...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Flowers for Elvis | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

...Jimmy Carter's kind of evening. The stock-car crowd is there because Ole Country Boy Carter is devoted to racing tracks the way his predecessors were to putting greens or yachting water. And the singer? Another Carter favorite: high-riding, low-living Willie Nelson, 45, country music's reigning "redneck rocker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Platinum Outlaw | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...opposite directions shortly after Willie was born. Willie was five when he got a guitar and a few rudimentary lessons from his grandfather, a blacksmith who had taken mail-order music courses. Soon Willie was pressing his ear against an old wooden Philco radio to hear Grand Ole Opry. At 13 he formed his own band-with his father, then living in a town 40 miles away, on fiddle. He left high school at 16, was mustered out of the Air Force after eight months because of back problems, and quickly married a Waco carhop named Martha Matthews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Platinum Outlaw | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...work hard for the system each year without pay. "Just say the pageant is my golf game," explains Charles when asked why he does it. From Atlantic City, too, comes intriguing word about some of the other contestants. Miss Mississippi, Christine learns, was a twirler in her band at "Ole Miss" and a fraternity sweetheart, and is the proud owner of a poodle named Po-Co who is her jogging mate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Practicing Swimsuit for Atlantic City | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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