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...that the annual address has become the most important speech a president gives in any year, it?s hard to remember that until Woodrow Wilson, presidents from Thomas Jefferson on used to simply deliver a State of the Union message to Congress without appearing in person. It was more of a memo than a speech. As recently as 1964, the speech was given at midday to a much smaller television audience. The State of the Union we know for its theatrics is all relatively new, with the tradition of inviting and singling out special guests only begun by (who else...
...DIED. WILSON PICKETT, 64, volatile R&B star whose gravelly, raunchy delivery on such 1960s hits as Mustang Sally and In the Midnight Hour inspired the 1991 film The Commitments and helped earn him the moniker Wicked Pickett; of a heart attack; in Reston, Va. Despite drug and legal battles, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer remained inventive and determined, answering the disco craze with explosive live performances, which he continued until shortly before his death, and meriting a 2000 Grammy nomination for It's Harder Now, his first album in a decade...
...When you talked with him, you got the sense that he was more interested in you than your own parents were,” said Wilson, who is now a music professor at Vassar...
...Forbes’ invitation, Wilson would attend Thanksgiving dinner each year at the professor’s 182 Brattle St. home. The house was rife with bits and pieces of Forbes family memorabilia, Wilson said, including Emerson’s own piano...
...Forbes was also always concerned about the well-being of his students, Wilson said. In one instance, Wilson found himself busy with schoolwork and called Forbes to get out of a Glee Club rehearsal. After telling Forbes that he had come down with a headache, Wilson said that Forbes rushed over in his car to deliver him some medicine...