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...Denver didn't officially celebrate on Dec. 31, 1999, because of Y2K fears, but will throw caution to the wind this year and stage a massive mall party. Mayor Wellington Webb has belatedly discovered the city was a stickler all along: it celebrated the start of the 20th century...
Margo, you're missing out. Great advances have been made in the field of throwing down recently. 5'4 Spud Webb won the 1986 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Slovenian guard Marko Milic once dunked over a Honda Del Sol. Vince Carter leaped over the head of a French seven-footer at the Olympics this past summer...
...most telling moment of the Clinton presidency was the resignation of Webb Hubbell. This was when it became totally clear that Clinton had sent a crook over to supervise the Justice Department, who was also an old Arkansas hand. It was illuminating about the whole series of corner cuttings and subversions of the justice process that went on from there to the end of the Administration. We always had suspicions that Clinton was corrupt, but I have to say I was surprised by the extent, or the brazenness, of it. And I suspect that as history unfolds, we'll learn...
...fellow named Bud Isaacs got the idea of hooking up a pedal that would pull a single string to a preset pitch while the instrument was being played, making the movement of the note part of the style. The first recording to feature this was 1953's "Slowly," by Webb Pierce, with Isaacs on steel, and the cat was out of the bag. More pedals were added, and then knee levers, which provided new ways to raise or lower the pitch of the strings. By the late '50s the pedal steel guitar - now up to 10 strings - was pretty much...
...million copies; in Los Angeles. Honed in nightclubs, London's hushed, smoked-out voice made hits of Around Midnight and My Heart Belongs to Daddy. Encouraged to sing by second husband Bobby Troup, writer of Route 66, London released more than 30 albums. In 1972 her first husband, Jack Webb, hired London and Troup to appear as nurse Dixie McCall and Dr. Joe Early on TV's Emergency...