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...DIED. AHN SANG-YOUNG, 65, mayor of Pusan, South Korea's second-largest city, of apparent suicide, while being held in jail as he awaited the verdict in a corruption trial; in Pusan. Ahn, who was re-elected as mayor in 2002, was jailed in October on charges of taking $85,500 in bribes from a construction company and was under investigation for allegedly accepting $256,400 from a bus company...
...noise that engulfed the Beatles as they trotted out onstage - intense, high-pitched, piercing. We agreed that it was louder, more frenzied, than Frank Sinatra's fans had ever been, or even Elvis Presley's. And it never let up: you could hardly hear the five songs the Beatles sang. Three nights later, when the Beatles played two concerts in Carnegie Hall, New York Times critic John S. Wilson reviewed the pandemonium of the audience as if it were the performance and the Beatles a barely audible accompaniment...
...Korea's Ministry of Defense. (Reports of American POW sightings have never been confirmed.) The two countries swapped prisoners when hostilities ended, but North Korea held onto at least 19,000 soldiers, South Korea's Ministry of Defense estimates, and has stubbornly denied their existence ever since. Says Ahn Sang Won, a spokesman for the Korean Veterans Association: "We just don't understand why South Korea can't be tougher on the North." According to the government, Lee was only the 35th POW to escape North Korea alive...
...JAKE HESS, 76, Southern gospel pioneer and early influence on Elvis Presley; in Opelika, Ala. The youngest of 12 children, Hess began singing in 1948 and starred in the seminal Christian music group the Statesmen Quartet. As a teenager in Memphis, Presley often attended Statesmen shows, and Hess later sang backup on the King's albums...
Those were also the early days of live television, which I loved, especially Horn and Hardart's Children's Hour. I longed to be one of the show's talented kids who tap-danced and sang. Of course, that was so far from where I was then. Being paralyzed, I had to night-crawl on my bedroom floor just to change the channel; there was no such thing as remote control...