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...enough to drink and barely of age to vote, drive or get married, but John E. Payton will soon be officiating at weekend weddings and night- court hearings in Collin County, Texas. Last week the 18-year-old high school graduate trounced incumbent Jim Murrell, 50, grabbing 82% of the vote to become a justice of the peace...
With no Democratic opponent in sight earlier this year, Murrell decided to take it easy on the campaign trail and simply deride young Payton's G.O.P. primary challenge. But Payton aggressively went pressing the flesh, knocking on more than 10,000 doors after school hours, and won. Last week, after a late-starting, intensive $31,000 write-in campaign to keep his robes, Murrell was stripped of his job in the general election...
...years there, the elder Marsalis turned NOCCA into a fertile breeding ground for future jazz stars. Like a Renaissance master turning out a whole school of fine painters, he trained a virtual Who's Who of the younger generation: Harry Connick Jr., Terence Blanchard, Marlon Jordan, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, saxman Donald Harrison and flutist Kent Jordan, to name a few. But the most remarkable crop of Marsalis pupils was his own sons: Branford, Wynton, trombonist Delfeayo, 25, and drummer Jason, 13. (Another son, Ellis III, 26, is a computer consultant in Baltimore; Mboya, 20, is autistic and lives at home...
Cornell's All-America linebacker, Mitch Lee, plays like Dick Butkus. Big Red running back John McNiff (130 yards, two touchdowns) thinks he's Walter Payton. The Crimson just think of going back home...
...well-to-do. Then, around 1880, the city extended its elevated lines to the north. Handsome neighborhoods sprang up, and by the early 1900s, Harlem bustled with urbanity. But the speculators had built too much too fast. So in 1904 a black real estate agent named Philip A. Payton rented apartments to blacks who were even then being displaced from their midtown homes by the new Pennsylvania Station railyards. The scheme succeeded beyond the speculators' wildest nightmares. By the 1920s, Harlem was mostly black...