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...name is Abbey Lincoln, but she also answers to Aminata Moseka when the spirit moves her. She started out as Anna Marie Wooldridge, then became Gaby Lee and, for a time, Mrs. Max Roach. If all these shifts in appellation suggest a life that has gone through many changes, that's hardly the whole story. They also indicate that this remarkable singer's managers have tried several times to reinvent her to suit themselves. Talking with her now, it is difficult to believe such a self-consciously independent woman would permit anyone to tinker with her name, much less something...
Lincoln soon began to make a name for herself. In 1957 she fell in love with Max Roach, the great bebop percussionist, whom she married five years later. The civil rights movement was gathering momentum, and Lincoln got swept along in it. She was one of the first black women to wear her hair in a natural, Afro style, and her music underwent a similar transformation. In 1960 she sang on Roach's Freedom Now Suite, an urgent blast against America's homegrown version of apartheid. She also starred in Nothing But a Man, a poignant 1962 film about...
Things began to fall apart during the 1970s. Lincoln stormed out of her marriage to Roach, and record producers grew wary of her outspoken views. "They said I wasn't commercial because I didn't know how to shut up and just sing the song and forget all that stuff," says Lincoln. She spent most of the next two decades in Los Angeles, living in a garage apartment and supporting herself mostly as a schoolteacher...
Even companies who want to hire say they are constrained by doubts about the recovery. "This recession has had nine lives, and we've already seen a number of false starts," says John Roach, chairman of Tandy Corp., which owns the Radio Shack electronics stores. "Actual growth in jobs will require a stronger rebound in the economy than there seems to be right now." At lumber giant Georgia-Pacific, hiring plans have been shelved despite forecasts of increased homebuilding in 1993. "Consumers would have to come back after the Christmas buying binge and show continued confidence," says president A.D. Correll...
...Long Island suburb, she was the wide-eyed little girl who roamed the streets at all hours, sometimes coatless in the winter. Child- protection authorities had built up a fat dossier on her makeshift family. They knew that sometimes Katie stayed with her unmarried mother in a filthy, roach-infested house where rusted cars and an old refrigerator decorated the lawn. But sometimes she was in the charge of her godmother, who summoned the girl to run errands by pounding on the floor of the bedroom where she spent much...