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...Texas. Nicknamed for his deep voice, he got his break in the late 1940s at Houston's Bronze Peacock club when T-Bone Walker fell ill and Brown jumped onstage and began riffing. ("I made $600 in 15 minutes," he boasted.) A collaborator with artists from Eric Clapton to Roy Clark, the frequent Grammy nominee won the award for his 1982 album, Alright Again...
...FREED. ROY HALLUMS, 57, U.S. contractor, formerly of Newport Beach, Calif., kidnapped at gunpoint last November while working for a Saudi catering company that provided food to the Iraqi army and last seen publicly in January in a video, pleading for his life; by U.S. forces, acting on a tip from a recent detainee, in a raid on an Iraqi farmhouse, where he had been held, bound and gagged; near Baghdad...
...DIED. ROY "BUTCH" VORIS, 85, skilled World War II Navy pilot handpicked by Admiral Chester Nimitz to organize the flight-demonstration team known as the Blue Angels; in Monterey, Calif. In more than three decades of daredevil flying, Voris survived several accidents and a midair collision. He told his hometown paper last year, "I think I've used up eight of those proverbial nine lives...
...World Health Organization (WHO) says it's happy with China's cooperation?and WHO Beijing spokesman Roy Wadia notes that the country isn't required to notify anyone about Strep. suis infections, much less share information. The Ministry of Health says it has the situation under control, although suspicions about China's openness on disease outbreaks, dating back to the 2003 SARS crisis, linger. "The Chinese have got to be transparent," says Robert Webster, a bird-flu expert who has worked with China in the past. If not, neighboring countries?and the world?could pay the price...
...ROY BERCAW...