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...biggest star, and he's right. His flat, nasal shout relies for accompaniment on little more than electronic twangs and a passel of whooping colleagues, while he delivers the ordinary man's poetic visions: "When I first saw you, babe, you nearly made me wreck/My ole '49 Cadillac...
Died. George D. Hay, 72, "the solemn ole judge," as he called himself who created Grand Ole Opry and made it the byword of country-western music; of a heart attack; in Virginia Beach Va. One day in 1927, Hay opened his program of hillbilly music over Nashville's WSM by saying, "For the past hour we have been listening to music taken largely from grand opera, but from now on we will present 'the Grand Ole Opry.' " The name stuck, and so did such stars as Eddy Arnold and Jim Reeves, who helped spread the Nashville...
...Merchant's Daughter. Christiansen business got its start in Billund during the early 1930s when his father, a carpenter unable to find work in the depressed village, began making wooden toys in his workshop. Naming his enterprise Lego, a contraction for the Danish leg godt (meaning play well), Ole Kirk Christiansen peddled his toys by bicycling about in the surrounding countryside. When Godtfred reached 14 he dropped out of the village school to join his father, after World War II helped swing Lego into the manufacture of plastic toy animals...
...Iowa (41-8, 56-6), but in between was sorely embarrassed by a 28-21 upset at the hands of Purdue's unranked Boilermakers. Alabama was lucky to emerge with a 37-37 tie against equally unranked Florida State, before getting up steam against little Southern Mississippi and Ole Miss. Michigan State suffered the humiliation of a decade, losing 37-7 to a surprising Houston team that everybody had overlooked, lost again to U.S.C. before finally posting a win over Wisconsin. Texas? Defeated by both U.S.C. and Texas Tech before venting its frustration on Oklahoma State. Miami? Another...
Thursday, October 12 DANIEL BOONE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). When ole Dan'l sets out to recover some stolen gold for Guest Star Maurice Evans, his Indian buddy, Mingo (Ed Ames) keeps the hijackers occupied with an aria from The Marriage of Figaro. Operation successful...