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...bedroom house rents for no more than $185 a month. But wildcat strikes are frequent-District 7 walked out for ten weeks last summer over a reduction in health benefits-and miners generally save little of their earnings. "Sometimes you're high on the hog, and sometimes you ain't got nothing," says Jerold Hamrick...
...AIN'T MISBEHAVIN...
...handsome and jubilant tribute is being paid to the man's genius at the Manhattan Theater Club's cabaret. One reservation must be made about this frolicsome revue-styled show. Waller was, above all things, a spotlight performer and star entertainer. The structure of Ain't Misbehavin' casts Luther Henderson more in the role of an accompanist. Faithful to the music, Henderson lacks that explosive authority at "stride" piano which was Waller's legacy to U.S. jazz...
There was a war on. Every night, television sets in the nation's living rooms showed?in color?the horror of the fighting in Viet Nam. Ali refused to do his bit. "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong," he said, and changed his life forever. When the Army tried to draft Ali, he appealed, claiming that, as a Black Muslim, he was a conscientious objector: Ali managed to squeeze in a few fights, mostly in Europe, before the date he was supposed to take the fateful step forward to induction. Ironically, the man who read...
...80th birthday present, a portrait commissioned by Parliament and painted by the famed English neoromanticist Graham Sutherland. But his remark was tongue in cheek, and the audience roared. Winnie thought the portrait, which had a gloomy, resigned-to-age air about it, made him look "half-witted, which I ain't." His dutiful wife Clementine put it out of sight in the basement and promised her husband that it would never see "the light of day." She meant it. About 18 months after the presentation she saw to it that the painting was burned and totally destroyed. Last week...