Word: tipton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jazz musician Billy Tipton never gave his Social Security number to his booking agent. He never went swimming with his three adopted sons. Though he became seriously ill, he never visited a doctor. Last week, four days after Tipton, 74, died from a bleeding ulcer in Spokane, a funeral director told one of the musician's sons the reason for his odd behavior: Tipton was a woman...
...gifted pianist and saxophonist, Tipton apparently began his sexual masquerade during the Big Band era of the 1930s, when women sang but were seldom allowed to play instruments. "He gave up everything," said Kitty Oakes, the woman Tipton claimed was his wife for 19 years. "There were certain rules and regulations in those days if you were going to be a musician." Musicians who played with Tipton would remark on his youthful appearance, but never suspected his ruse. "Mentally he was a father," said one son, Scott Miller. "He was always there...
Last week their long legal battle ended in triumph. State Farm agreed to pay $420,822 each to Kraszewski and two other plaintiffs: Wilda Tipton, 45, of Ventura, Calif., and the estate of Daisy Jackson, who died in 1983. The settlement calls for possible payments of $15,575 to $420,822 to other women who applied for 1,113 sales-agent jobs in California during the past 13 1/2 years. State Farm believes the settlement will cost no more than $50 million, but the plaintiffs' attorney estimates that the bill will be as high as $300 million. That would make...
...candidate Dukakis radiates a far more simplistic version of cause and effect. "I speak to you as the Governor of a state which twelve years ago was bouncing around at the bottom of the barrel," he said in Tipton, Iowa. "Twelve years later we have a 3.5% unemployment rate, and we're now an economic showcase. How did it happen? Because we worked at it. We invested public resources; we got the private sector in; we involved citizens, mayors, business people...
...Lise Hilboldt) and the Father (Robert Stattel) see "real" actors imitating the gestures and words they had used in moments of true passion, they initially cannot recognize themselves. When they do, they greet the realization with both laughter and despair. Mirrors and lighting (designed by Michael Yeargan and Jennifer Tipton, respectively) make such scenes visually exciting and intellectually stimulating...