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...TIGER WOODS. He won "only" one of the Majors this year, outdueling David Duval and Phil Mickelson to take his second Masters title. That marked Woods' fourth consecutive victory in a Major--he won the U.S. and British Opens and PGA Championship last year--a string no other golfer has ever put together...
...lights by Fiber Optic Designs are made of shatter-resistant light-emitting diodes that the company claims will last up to 20 years and cut energy costs up to 85%, compared with regular incandescent Christmas bulbs. Available in red, yellow and green and selling for about $10 for a string of 100, they might rekindle your holiday spirit...
DIED. BUDD BOETTICHER, 85, director of low-budget, minimalist movies; in Ramona,Calif. In the 1950s, he made a string of commercially successful, widely praised Westerns, often starring Randolph Scott, about stoic tough guys on simple quests...
...quote of John's that I was fond of jelly babies and had written about it in his column. That night we were absolutely pelted ... Imagine waves of rock-hard little bullets raining down on you from the sky. Every now and then one would hit a string on my guitar and plonk off a bad note as I was trying to play. From then on, everywhere we went it was exactly the same...
...Harrison's guitar idols had included not only rocker Carl Perkins but also Andres Segovia, and he had worked hard to master an intricate, precise technique (his later experiments with 12-string guitars, not to mention his sitar playing, would be vastly influential in rock music). Now concertgoers couldn't even hear him, and, worse, they didn't care. Harrison, who turned 21 just after that first brief American tour, wondered to the others on the flight home, "How f______ stupid it all is. All that big hassle to make it, only to end up as performing fleas...