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...because Kenworthy is quiet and refuses to sing his own praises, it is often hard for those who don't know him to figure...

Author: By Matthew A. Saal, | Title: Changing Lanes | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

Harvard cannot seem to resist the urge to throw itself a big party every 50 years of so. The first such fun-fest occurred in 1836, when 1500 old chaps endured rain in Harvard Yard to drink wine and and hear Oliver Wendell Holmes sing a song in honor of the College's 200th anniversary...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: The Big Party | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...latest, though certainly not the last, of the recent charity "megathons." Holding hands in a human chain that, in theory at least, was supposed to stretch from coast to coast, an eclectic, Fellini-like crowd was expected to sing America the Beautiful (key lyric: "From sea to shining sea") at 3 p.m. EDT, as well as the trendier anthems We Are the World and Hands Across America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lending a Helping Hand | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...snack shop or maybe even a small restaurant-nightclub where the Great Pacific Jazz Band, the septet he has led from his piano for 20 years, can play. These days, they've got a regular Sunday gig in Encino. Sometimes Molly drops by to sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald! | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Molly the blues singer, that is. The one who recorded an album, Molly Sings, when she was six. Whose favorite vocalists were Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Who, for a second-grade show-and-tell about a famous American (in which most of the boys dressed as George Washington and most of the girls as Florence Nightingale), showed up as Bessie Smith, in a big old dress and a perm like an Afro. "When I was a little kid," Molly says, "I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald! | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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