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Some of the most fascinating chapters are those which deal, not with such high media profile stars as the Beatles, the Stones, Dylan, etc., but with the lesser talked about yet highly influential personalities like Fats Domino, Little Richard, Sam Cooke and B.B. King...
After just 3½ hours, the jury supplied the answer: guilty, but of criminally negligent homicide, a lesser offense than reckless manslaughter. Maximum possible sentence: two years in jail and a $5,000 fine. Her lawyers immediately began considering an appeal, and Longet proclaimed defiantly: "I have too much respect and love for living things to be guilty of this crime...
...Yitzhak Rubin, 40, a middle-level Defense Ministry official, was sentenced to a two-year prison term for accepting bribes from businessmen dealing with the ministry. Four lesser employees received one-or two-year sentences on the same charges. Three of the bribe-givers were also convicted...
...many New Yorkers, that tale would have seemed only slightly more bizarre than the melodrama unfolding on their front pages and television screens last week. Rupert Murdoch ?the furry-browed, softspoken, intensely competitive Australian owner of ten major newspapers, 13 magazines and dozens of lesser publications?had no sooner established himself as the owner of the city's only afternoon paper, the Post (circ. 500,000), than he was making a surprise bid to buy control of the New York Magazine Co. New York Founding Editor Clay Felker, meanwhile, canvassed millionaires around the world for help in fighting...
Homer to Hopper, at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, looks at the golden age of American watercolor (1870-1930). Included are the works of Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, John Marin, Charle Demuth and some lesser-known painters. (Tuesday-Friday...