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Hank Williams, Jr. was barely two years old on the December night his father died in the back seat of a Cadillac in southern West Virginia, minutes after finishing his last gig. Williams pere casts an awesome shadow over country music--"Jambalaya," "Hey Good Lookin'" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" have entered the pantheon of American popular music...
Into the Pits. This silver beauty bears little resemblance to Andre's first cornet, a gift from his father, who played in the Ales band. Though Andre pere sent his son into the pits at age 14, he kept him at his trumpet lessons. Four years later, he bowed to the teacher's urging and packed the boy off to Paris to enter the Conservatoire. For over a decade before records began to spread his reputation, Andre took any job he could get: TV commercials, jazz dates, concerts in the Michel Legrand orchestra and endless La Bohemes...
This allegation was untrue: Mr. Higonnet pere had not rendered Professor Landes this or any other service, in any connection. The article thus defamed Professor Landes by implying that his actions were so improperly influenced, and maligned Professor Higonnet by implying that his professional recognition was, in part, attributable to such influence. The Crimson, on complaint by Professor Landes, removed the Commencement issue from the stands and published a retraction in its issue of December 19, 1972, along with a rectificatory statement by Professor Landes, which was then mailed to seniors of the Class of 1972 and Commencement guests...
...Peter, now 37 and a sculptor living in Rome, remembers Dad differently. "Sometimes it was very frustrating to be a subject and to be seen through his eyes and not in the way I thought I was," he explains. Now Peter has countered with a sculpture of Rockwell pere that would never make the cover of the Saturday Evening Post: a bronze head with a gaping hole in it. Along with 35 other sculptures, including a realistic representation of Norman, it is part of Peter's current...
...about me is arrant falsehood. He writes that the father of my colleague Patrice Higonnet helped me gain access to important French archives and he implies that because of this alleged assistance I supported Professor Higonnet's appointment to a permanent post in the Department of History Mr. Higonnet pere has never helped me in any connection, so that I cannot possibly have been in fluenced by his favor to support the appointment of his son, as The Crimson itself recognizes...