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...Marc Starr watches silently as 116 boxes of used books, piled on the brick sidewalk outside his 29 Plympton St. storefront, are loaded into a van to be sold to Daedalus Fine Books in Oregon...
...that like the rest of America's workplace, WWII allowed many more women into jobs previously held by men. Adventure newspaper strips in particular saw an influx of women pioneers. Tarpe Mill's sexy, cat-suited "Miss Fury" strip stands out, as does Dale Messick's still-enduring "Brenda Starr." As a bonus, Robbins has dug up Messick's unpublished, earlier strip proposals. Robbins super-sleuthing has even uncovered Jackie Ormes, apparently the first African-American woman with a syndicated comicstrip, "Torchy Brown," that ran sporadically from the 1930s to the 1950s in black-owned newspapers...
...London and in Strawberry Fields, the area of Manhattan's Central Park across from where Lennon was shot, and by his former bandmates. "He was a beautiful man. He was like my baby brother to me," said Sir Paul, who lost his wife Linda to breast cancer in 1998. Starr, long Harrison's best friend in the band, said, "We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter...
...band - and a few weeks later the boys were playing together again in England. Sounding better than ever, and much better than other Liverpool pop bands, the Beatles became local legends through their shows at the Cavern Club. They got a record contract, replaced their drummer with the talented Starr and were on their...
...causing many listeners to investigate Eastern religions. In the early aftermath of the Beatles demise, Harrison, the revelation, rivaled Lennon or McCartney as a pop icon, and Shankar realized his friend might be the perfect front man for a good cause. In August 1971, Harrison and friends Dylan, Starr, Leon Russell and Eric Clapton staged two concerts at New York City's Madison Square Garden to raise money for the flood- and famine-ravaged Indian subcontinent. The Concert for Bangladesh established Harrison as a pioneering rock philanthropist, and set a model for future celebrity fund-raising efforts like Live...