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Lightfoot's assured, straightforward delivery shows him to be that rarity in the folk field, a well-schooled singer. He got his early training as a high school student in the central Ontario town of Orillia. "Man, I did the whole bit -oratorio work, Kiwanis contests, operettas, barbershop quartets." He also played drums and sang in a dance band, and taught himself folk guitar. After a year of study at California's Westlake College of Music, he launched his career by working as a studio singer on Canadian and British television. "Musically, I'm the product...
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Gourmets. In Troy, N.Y., three recaptured prisoners explained why they had escaped from Cheshire County (N.H.) jail: "Fried potatoes, day after day, meal after meal." Near Orillia, Ont., Walter Richmond told police that when he remarked to Restaurant Owner Harry Shore that the hamburger was cold, Shore shot him in the ankle with a .32 revolver...
Died. Martin John Insull, 77, after long illness; in Orillia, Ont. In 1934 he was acquitted with brother Samuel (who died of a heart attack in a Paris subway station in 1938) of charges of embezzlement that allegedly caused the 1932 collapse of their fabulous $2 billion Middle West Utility Co. British subject Insull was subsequently deported to Canada, where, until his death, he lived in modest obscurity...
Died. Virginia Van Vliet Insull, sister-in-law of onetime Chicago Utilitarian Samuel Insull; after long illness; in Orillia, Ont. Her husband, Martin John Insull was implicated with his brother Samuel in the collapse of the Insull utility empire...