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...landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act passed. But the price he had always paid for his nonviolent leadership was violence. He was repeatedly assaulted, his home bombed. In 1968 he paid the ultimate price: he was assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tenn., by James Earl Ray...
...fire is gone. He says people are not panicking. They're moving fast. I grab his hand, shake it and say, "Good luck. God bless you." We sort of do a little hug. Then I shake [First Deputy Commissioner] Bill Feehan's hand, and I wave to [Battalion Chief] Ray Downey--I had just given a dinner at Gracie [Mansion] for him and all his people, about half of whom are gone now. So I wave to him, not thinking I am saying goodbye. No way. I'm actually thinking our guys are pretty safe, because...
...F.D.N.Y. hats, T shirts and scarves. Credentials to the red zone have supplanted tickets to The Producers as the hottest status symbol in New York. Assistants have scrambled to procure the official, laminated OEM passes for the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Prince Andrew, Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey. Ray Charles asked Quincy Jones...
...Berlin was a Jew whose love for America included a love for two gentile women: his wives. First Dorothy Goetz, the sister of songwriter Ray Goetz. Her marriage to Berlin was brief: she died of pneumonia barely five months past her wedding day. The song he wrote to commemorate her, "When I Lost You," became his second #1 hit. (Berlin couldn't help turning grief into greenbacks...
...Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1911), by Ray Charles (1959), on "The Genius of Ray Charles." A coon song can be a black song, as Charles transforms Berlin's antique march into a big-band raver. The band (Ralph Burns did the brassy, bluesy charts) plays the melody and Charles comes in an antiphonal bar later, bleating "Come on an' hear!" By the end of the chorus he's quoting his own "This Little Girl of Mine" and has the Raelets chirping a descending, exultant "Zander ragtime band!" Great music...