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...tiny town of Dyess, Arkansas (pop. 464). After signing with legendary Sun Records -- Presley's first label -- in 1955, he recorded such hits as Folsom Prison Blues before moving to Columbia Records in 1958. Cash remained with Columbia for almost three decades and produced a formidable string of hits. Along the way he married June Carter, of the Carter Family Singers, a country-gospel group; they have a son as well as several children by previous marriages. As Cash aged, he gradually fell out of favor with Columbia. Early in life he had spent a few nights in jail...
...endorse a candidate this year, but her dominance at the event gave her a badly needed lift after a long season of unfocused strategy and outright foul-ups. Ushered before the placard-waving delegates swaying to rock music, Brown wore a suit of banker's blue with a string of Barbara Bush pearls as she uncorked a new campaign that pushed just two messages: a promise of 1 million new jobs and an excoriation of the sitting Governor's record. "You know who Pete Wilson is?" she asked mischievously. "He's George Bush. Without the charisma...
...Brent McGuire writes that I "explained that, in considering whether to write a letter about Peninsula's response to campus feminism, [I] `decided not to stoop to their level."' He asks, "But what is our level--complete English sentences?" While I congratulate McGuire on his ability to string together nouns, verbs, and adjectives, I need seek no further than his own article for examples of precisely what "his level...
...hallmark of Nixon's youth had been poverty -- poverty and family illness and endless work. His father Frank, who had dropped out of school and run away from home after the fourth grade, was a combative and quarrelsome Ohioan. After running through a string of jobs, Frank moved to California in 1907, built a house in the desert-edge town of Yorba Linda and tried to grow lemons. There Frank's pious Quaker wife Hannah gave birth on Jan. 9, 1913, to a second son. She named him Richard, after the English King Richard the Lion-Hearted, plus Milhous...
...bats then more or less subsided for both teams until the bottom the sixth. Hartford's lead-off litter connected on her second home run of the day, and her teammates followed with a string of his which left the Crimson down by three...