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...then, the same thing was done to Elvis when he appeared on Sullivan's show, so what's new? (Incidentally, Elvis and Ike were both discovered by the same man, Sam Phillips, a Memphis exec credited with discovering B.B. King, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lowis, Carl Perkins, Charlic Rich, Rufus Thomas, and Roy Orbison...
Both Floyd Wilson, director of intramural athletics, and his assistant Rufus Peebles said yesterday it's too early to tell whether athletic participation has fallen off because...
...headline read FEW PRESENT. In three terse sentences, the obituary in the New Haven Evening Register of Aug. 14, 1884, informed readers that the aged inventor Rufus Porter was dead, and that "there were very few present at the service." It was a cruel epitaph for a man who had lived 92 years and responded so creatively to an inventive age. Porter was the creator of more than 100 machines and gadgets including a washing machine, an airship, a portable, prefabricated house, an automobile run on steam, and an elevated train. He was the founder of the Scientific American, which...
...portraits, rarely signed his work. One day in 1940, Jean Lipman, editor of Art in America, noticed Porter's signature and date on a mural. She followed up the clue, studied his style, slowly identified his other works, and eventually pieced his lifetime together in her book, Rufus Porter, Yankee Pioneer...
...Rufus what he would say if he were to write about street people, and he tells me: "We are all searching. Sometimes we are allowed to forget that. We fill our lives with objects. Some of the objects were people once, like my wife and child. In the streets you know that there is something like a river, and that all along you have been trying to fight your way upstream. In the streets, you flow downstream, and are aware of the energy that moves you. But that doesn't mean that it's easy...