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Crosby worshiped the sun seriously. He chanted hymns to Ra (though he also read Bible verses and apparently maintained some belief in a conventional Christian afterlife). He had talked Caresse into pledging to commit double suicide with him. They had their union with the sun all worked out. On Oct. 31, 1942, when the earth was to be at its nearest to the sun in several decades, they were going to jump out of an airplane together. Then their bodies were to be cremated, taken for a second airplane ride and scattered over a forest. But Harry talked seductively about...
...husband's old campaign T shirts in Cuba, by toasting the women's movement during a state banquet in Mexico, and by singing a song she had written for the wife of Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez in Caracas. When Margaret heard fans of an Ottawa ra dio show complaining of her conduct over the air, she placed a tearful call to the station. "I don't feel I did anything wrong," she said. "If you rely completely on protocol, you can become a robot...
Look out. Sunday night may be the night for Boston's finest jazz concert of the year. On the outside it looks fairly stellar--Sun Ra and His Humanitarian Arkestra playing two shows at the Boston Center for the Arts...
...once inside there is at least a pretty good chance, sources say, that drummer Max Roach and saxophonist Archie Shepp will be sitting in with Sun Ra. The combination should be dynamite...
SHALAMIT RAN, 27, grew up in Israel, began composing works in her head at seven. When she was nine, her teacher wrote down one of her songs, which was played on the ra dio. Delighted at hearing her own music, she started writing it out herself and at 14 produced her first symphonic work. The New York Philharmonic performed her Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic premiered her piano concerto. Although many women composers feel that developing their talent leaves no room for domesticity, Ran is married-to a jazz musician. It annoys Ran that on divulging...