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...electric, gave every stranger something to talk about. For the next four hours, a crowd assembled spontaneously in the blazing sun, hugging, waving flags, and jumping ("el que no salta es Pinochet") to the chants of "se siente, se siente, Allende está presente." Half a metro line uptown, nearly as many people were in mourning for their "friend" and "father," the ex-general...
...energy into old standards and for her long struggle with drug addiction, for which she served jail time; in Los Angeles. Born Anita Colton (O'Day was pig Latin for dough--"what I hoped to make," she said), she brought early hits to bandleaders Gene Krupa (Let Me Off Uptown) and Stan Kenton (And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine) and cemented her hipster reputation by performing in low-key jackets and skirts instead of gowns. Of her career--highlighted by signatures Sweet Georgia Brown and Honeysuckle Rose and a stunning performance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival--she said, "When...
...energy into old standards and for her long struggle with drug addiction, for which she served jail time; in Los Angeles. Born Anita Colton (O'Day was pig Latin for dough-"what I hoped to make," she said), she brought early hits to bandleaders Gene Krupa (Let Me Off Uptown) and Stan Kenton (And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine) and cemented her hipster reputation by performing in low-key jackets and skirts instead of gowns. Of her career-highlighted by signatures Sweet Georgia Brown and Honeysuckle Rose and a stunning performance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival-she said, "When...
...grew up in upstate New York and went to school in Lockport, where there was a sizable black contingent of students. They lived-it sounds so awful-in a place called Lower Town. The white people tended to live in Uptown. Quite literally, there was a long hill, a really steep hill. Those kids to me, they were just very fascinating. Very vivid personalities, very strong definite personalities. They were obviously living in a segregated city, and yet I didn't know that. Children don't really know those things...
...According to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the plane circled the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor on the cloudy afternoon before heading uptown, where something went wrong. The plane's flight path was completely "legal" - operating in approved air space and under clear regulations. Small planes and helicopters are permitted to fly up and down Manhattan Island, over either the East River or the Hudson River to the west. Since much of the surrounding air space is the busiest in the U.S. - with hundreds of airliners and business jet flights going in and out of John...