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...1930s, then went on to write almost 1,000 songs over a six-decade career. His best-known hit was the haunting La Mer, recorded in nearly 4,000 different versions. Although he announced his retirement in 1975, he released a last CD in 1995 and gave three sell-out concerts...
Chmura had seemed to be a perpetual-motion machine of good works, turning up in pediatric wards and at charity golf matches. He and his wife Lynda appeared together in a commercial for the United Way. He also threw his weight behind conservative political causes, attracting a sell-out crowd when he spoke at a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner. But last week a circuit-court judge in Waukesha, Wis., refused to dismiss or delay Chmura's Jan. 23 trial for sexual assault and enticement of a minor. Packer fans have never quite got over the shock of seeing the local...
Keaney, who is coordinating the rally out of Nader's Somerville campaign office, predicted a sell-out of the arena's approximately 13,500 seats...
Daisuke Matsuzaka made his name in 1998, performing on the sacred grounds of Koshien, the Yankee Stadium of Japan, in the National High School Baseball Championship. The series is a national obsession, played in front of sell-out crowds and attracting more TV viewers every summer than any other sporting event. Families uproot themselves so their sons might play for a school with a chance of getting to Koshien; those who make it often scoop up dirt from the field as a souvenir...
...sell-out crowd of 2,007, which seemed to include 1,000 little girls with "Courtney Rocks" painted on their faces, screamed as the Big Green saw how good it could be as it stole, rebounded and shot its way to a 96-74 win that was Dartmouth...