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...Banco Santander, Kusum Patel, a 50-year-old chef from Ilford, a gritty commuter suburb 9 miles (14.5 km) northeast of central London, withdrew all her savings and closed her account, as did several other customers. "They say it's going down. I've been hearing it on the radio," Patel fretted. "I haven't got a great amount of money, but the little bit I have is enough to make it scary...
DIED Dick Lynch, former defensive back and longtime radio announcer for the New York Giants, led the NFL in interceptions in 1961 and '63. Sometimes chided for peppering his broadcasts with greetings to his family and stories about his football glory days, Lynch did have a solid career to boast about. He played college ball at Notre Dame, and as an eight-season Giant, he helped the team advance four times to the championship game, which wouldn't be called the Super Bowl until 1967. He played in 97 regular-season games and scored seven career touchdowns. Lynch...
...lead vocalists for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Connie Haines made her mark with rhythmic, up-tempo songs like "Oh, Look at Me Now" and "Snooty Little Cutie." Haines got her start at the age of 4, performing in theaters in her native Savannah, Ga. She later made radio appearances with Abbott and Costello, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope and television appearances with Milton Berle and Ed Sullivan. She also performed for five U.S. Presidents, a testament to her enduring career. Haines...
Riding shotgun as Flo drove to Exclusive Motoring, where he was getting new rims put on his Bentley, I learned the first rule of posseing: you don't get to control the radio. Flo blasted the new album he's working on and sang along loudly. Though I feared it was not within my bounds as posse member, I politely asked if it was proper etiquette to sing along to our own music. "Oh yeah," he assured me. "If you don't feel it, how can you expect anyone else to?" I told him I loved the song with...
...worst for small businesses is the freezing of credit markets, says Pat Convery, president of the Howell Area Chamber of Commerce. "There's a lot of angst and confusion," she says. "People are almost afraid to turn on the radio or TV. No one knows what's coming next." - By Maggie Sieger / Grand Rapids...