Word: vernon
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...tune from the movie "Love a Little, Love a Little," was recently the #1 song in Britain in a remix by Dutch deejay JXL. A collection of 100 alternate (read: not-so-hot) takes of Elvis songs fills a new four-CD box set. A pity that daddy Vernon didn't record his infant son squealing in the crib; then RCA could release "Elvis: the Colic Years...
...four years ago, Verna Berryman, 46, packed up her things, bade goodbye to the Cabrini-Green housing project and embarked on a journey that she would probably rather forget. Forced out of the 16th-floor apartment that had been her home for six years, Berryman and her youngest child, Vernon, 17, joined a small group of other Cabrini families in what were the first steps of a massive plan to empty and demolish Chicago's decaying high-rise projects...
Krispy Kreme's international expansion is the latest step in its metamorphosis from a sleepy Southern retailer into a modern fast-food chain selling nearly 2 billion doughnuts a year. It was 65 years ago this month that Vernon Rudolph opened the first Krispy Kreme in Winston-Salem. As the company grew into a regional institution, Rudolph ensured consistency by providing the mix to each franchise and creating specially designed machines to automate the doughnut-making process. Beatrice Foods bought the company in 1976, three years after Rudolph's death, and the franchisees took control in 1982. Expansion beyond...
...titles of their RKO movies changed - "Flying Down to Rio," "The Gay Divorc?e," "Top Hat," "Roberta," "Follow the Fleet," "Swing Time," "Shall We Dance," "Carefree," "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" - but their roles were pretty constant. Fred was nature's nobleman, Ginger the plucky girl who made good by dancing well. It didn't matter that the films' plots were aggressively silly, the dialogue often inane. The musical numbers had a formula too: Fred courting Ginger, pursuing her in song and dance, while she ponders her ethical or emotional reservations to dancing-romancing; he approaches, she retreats...
...main point about Spider-Man: you may be a superhero, but when you get home, you still have to take out the garbage." DAVID P. VERNON Tucson, Ariz...