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...then tornadoes have long been known for their capricious behavior. The same twists of wind that can derail trains and rip up pavement can be surprisingly gentle. Says National Weather Service meteorologist Donald Burgess: "I've seen a phonograph record driven through a telephone pole, and the record wasn't broken. I've seen a fridge thrown several hundred yards, while glasses on a nearby table weren't touched." Last month Betty Lou Pearce, a 64-year-old clerk from Pilot, North Carolina, hid from a tornado in her bathtub and moments later found herself sliding into the woods...
...apartment in the 1950s was a walk-down: the "back half of a basement" with one room and a toilet down the hall. There this shy, Catholic girl from a small town in Rhode Island would sit "cross-legged on my studio couch, Vivaldi's Four Seasons on the phonograph" and feel "joy exploding in my chest. Because from this house I emerge every morning into the place my father promised would be mine one day. The place where there'd be lots of people like...
...Fanny, Mary (Rachel Siegel), and Alexandra (Jessie Cohen) near our century they encounter the detritus of the '50s--egg beaters, "I Like lke" buttons, phonograph records, a big inflated banana...
...third child, Patrick, was born to the Kennedys, but he lived only two days. His father went down to the hospital boiler room and wept. But they were a real family now. After the assassination, Jackie recalled to Theodore White the nights when Jack would turn on the phonograph in their bedroom and play the title song from the Broadway hit Camelot. Perhaps he saw his presidency as a chimera, "that brief shining moment" that must not be forgot. But the song was instead a premonition of tragedy...
...soon he will live, and sing, on the CD-ROM Virtual Graceland. Due out this summer, the Crunch Media disk allows users to roam freely through Presley's haunted mansion, room by room, in 360 degrees shots. Wander into the TV room and play Elvis' hits on his personal phonograph. Noodle on Elvis' piano, strum his guitar, open drawers by clicking on them. Just don't try peeking into Elvis' medicine chest; the bathroom is not open to the public...