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Joseph William Perkins , known by the stage name Pinetop Perkins, was an Americanbluesmusician, specializing in piano music. He played with some of the most influential blues and rock and roll performers in American history, and received numerous honors during his lifetime including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame.
(July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011)
Life and career
Perkins was born in Belzoni, Mississippi.[1] He began his career as a guitarist, but then injured the tendons in his left arm in a fight with a choirgirl in Helena, Arkansas. Unable to play guitar, Perkins switched to the piano, and also switched from Robert Nighthawk‘s KFFAradio program to Sonny Boy Williamson‘s King Biscuit Time.[2] He continued working with Nighthawk, however, accompanying him on 1950’s “Jackson Town Gal”.
In the 1950s, Perkins joined Earl Hooker and began touring, stopping to record “Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie” (written by Pinetop Smith) at Sam Phillips‘ studio in Memphis, Tennessee. (“They used to call me Pinetop,” he recalled, “because I played that song.”)[3] However, Perkins was only 15 years old in 1928, when Smith originally recorded “Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie”.
Perkins then relocated to Illinois and left music until Hooker convinced him to record again in 1968.
When Otis Spann left the Muddy Waters band in 1969, Perkins was chosen to replace him.[2] He stayed for more than a decade, then left with several other musicians to form The Legendary Blues Band with Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, recording through the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.[2]
Perkins played a brief musical cameo on the street outside Aretha’s Soul Food Cafe in the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers, having an argument with John Lee Hooker over who wrote “Boom Boom.” He also appeared in the 1987 movie Angel Heart as a member of guitarist Toots Sweet’s band.
At age 97, he won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album for Joined at the Hip, an album he recorded with Willie “Big Eyes” Smith. Perkins thus became the oldest-ever Grammy winner,[5] edging out comedian George Burns who had won in the spoken word category 21 years earlier (he had tied with Burns, at the age of 95, in 2004).[6] A little more than a month later, Perkins died on 21 March 2011 at his home in Austin, Texas.[5] At the time of his death, the musician had more than 20 performances booked for 2011. Shortly before that, while discussing his late career resurgence with an interviewer, he conceded, “I can’t play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can’t do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.” Along with David “Honeyboy” Edwards, he was one of the last two original MississippiDelta blues musicians, and also to have a personal knowledge of and friendship with Robert Johnson.[7]
Hugh Reskymer “Kym” Bonython, AC, DFC, AFC was a prominent and active member of Adelaide society in Australia, with a very wide range of interests, activities and achievements in the fields of business, the arts, entertainment and public service died he was 90..
His occupations included radio broadcaster, pilot, speedway motorbike rider, speedway racing car driver, speedway promoter, hydroplane racer, author, concert promoter, art dealer, art promoter, art collector, jazz aficionado, jazz promoter, jazz collector, jazz musician, monarchist, euthanasia advocate, company director, board member and numerous others.
(15 September 1920 – 19 March 2011)
Biography
“Kym” was born on 15 September 1920 in Adelaide, the youngest child of Sir John Lavington Bonython and his second wife Lady Jean Bonython, nee Constance Jean Warren.[2] (Sir John’s first wife died in childbirth, aged 26). He was named “Hugh Reskymer Bonython” after an ancestor who had served as High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1619.[3][4] Both his father, John Lavington Bonython,[5] and his grandfather, John Langdon Bonython,[6] had been (amongst other things) editors of The Advertiser. His father had also served as a councillor, alderman, Mayor and Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide.[5] Kym was the youngest of six children; he had one half-brother (John Langdon Bonython (1905–1992)), two half-sisters (Lady Betty Wilson and Ada Heath), a brother (Charles Warren Bonython[7]) and a sister (Katherine Verco).
He attended St Peter’s College, Adelaide, and upon completion entered into accountancy on the recommendation of his older half-brother John.[4] The Second World War interrupted this: in 1940 he began training as a pilot for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Bonython served in the (then) Netherlands East Indies and New Guinea, experiencing several “death defying” near misses.[8][4][9] He was in hospital in Darwin (with dengue fever) during the 1942 bombing[10] – he had just evacuated and taken cover when the ward he had been in took a direct hit.[8] During his time with the RAAF, Bonython filled the roles of aircraft captain in 1941, and chief flying instructor with the rank of squadron leader in 1943.[9] On 1 September 1944, Flight Lieutenant Bonython (Aus.280778) was awarded the Air Force Cross (AFC),[11][12] and on 22 February 1946, Squadron Leader Bonython AFC was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)[13][14][15]
When he returned from service he chose not to return to accounting, deciding on a very different career path. Initially he took up dairy farming on his father’s Mount Pleasant property, but in the 1950s his career changed to incorporate music, the arts, and motor racing.[4][9]
As a child Kym Bonython developed a passion for jazz, and this influenced a number of his later pursuits. At the age of 17, in 1937, he entered the media with an ABC radio jazz show.[9] The show continued for 38 years, finishing in 1975. His involvement in the jazz scene also extended to making and selling music; in 1952 he became a member of a jazz band as drummer – a skill he had learned as a child – and he opened his first record store in Bowman’s Arcade on King William Street in 1954.[4] His passion for music also led him to create his own concert promotion company, Aztec Services, in the 1950s, and as a promoter he brought to Adelaide some of the greats of jazz, including Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.[16] Later, at the urging of his children, he expanded his range to rock and roll, bringing the likes of Chuck Berry to Adelaide, and he was one of the key people responsible for negotiating the addition of Adelaide to The Beatles Australian tour 1964.[17]
Along with music, Kym Bonython had a passion for art, and he began his collection in 1945. In 1961 he opened his first gallery, the Bonython Art Gallery in North Adelaide, (which later became the Bonython Meadmore gallery), before moving to Sydney to open the Hungry Horse Gallery in Paddington in 1966.[4][9][18][19] His time with his Sydney gallery ended in 1976, and he returned to Adelaide to buy back his original gallery, operating it until 1983.[19] From 1988 Bonython managed a Sydney gallery once more, managing the BMG Fine Art for a short time.[9][19] Kym Bonython’s eye for contemporary art saw his galleries promote many Australian and international artists, including Sidney Nolan, Pro Hart and William Dobell, and he is widely acknowledged to have discovered and fostered the work of Brett Whiteley.[16][17][19] Along with the art galleries and his personal collection (much of which was destroyed when the Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983 engulfed his Mount Lofty property, “Eurilla”[20]), Bonython authored and published a number of art books.[17][21]
Kym Bonython gained a reputation as a daredevil partially through another of his interests: motor racing. He raced at the Rowley Park Speedway at Bowden, which he also managed from 1952 to 1973, and also competed nationally. At one stage he was the national hydroplane champion.[17] His life in motor sports led to many accidents, the most serious being in 1956 when, racing to defend his Australian hydroplane title at Snowdens Beach, his boat crashed; the injuries that resulted led to Bonython spending the next 14 months on crutches.[4] Amongst his achievements in motor sports was his work to bring Formula 1 to Adelaide in 1985, in which he has been described as a “catalyst” for the event.[1] His time in motor sports earned him the title of “the man with 99 lives” and, from Max Harris regarding Rowley Park, the “Cecil B. De Mille of Bowden”.[4][21] In his eighties, he was one of the inaugural inductees of Australia’s Speedway Hall of Fame.[8]
Bonython was also active in public life. He served on the Adelaide City Council, as had both his father and grandfather before him, and he was the chairman of the South Australian Jubilee 150 Board.[22][1] Other boards of which he was a member included the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Musica Viva Australia and the Australia Council.[17] Bonython was also one of Australia’s leading monarchists, chairing the No Republic committee and serving as one of South Australia’s delegates to the 1998 Constitutional Convention. Other causes to receive his active support included euthanasia and compulsory national service.[21][16][23]
In 1979 he wrote an autobiography: “Ladies’ Legs and Lemonade”, Kym Bonython, Adelaide: Rigby, 1979.
Kym was married twice and had five children: Chris and Robyn from the first marriage, Tim, Michael and Nicole from the second.[8][21] On his return from Milne Bay after the war he married Jean Adore Paine[24] – they divorced in 1953.[25] In 1957, while still on cruthes from his accident at Snowden’s beach, he married former Miss South Australia Julianna McClure (Julie).[8][26]
He died on 19 March 2011 at his home in North Adelaide, aged 90.[1] He passed away during the running of the Clipsal 500 while an F-18 flew overhead, reflecting both his love of motor sports and his time as an RAAF pilot.[1]
He was survived by his wife, Julie, his five children, 15 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.[16][8]
Modern Australian Painting & Sculpture: A survey of Australian Art from 1950 to 1960, Rigby, Adelaide, 1960.
Modern Australian Painting 1960-70, Rigby, Adelaide, 1970.
Modern Australian Painting 1970-75, Rigby, Adelaide, 1976, Kym Bonython & Elwynn Lynn
Modern Australian Painting 1975-80, Rigby, Adelaide, 1980.
Modern Australian Painting 1950-75, Rigby, Adelaide, 1980.
“Ladies’ legs and Lemonade”, Adelaide: Rigby, 1979.
Honours and awards
On 1 September 1944 he was awarded the Air Force Cross.[12] On 22 February 1946 he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.[14]
In the Queen’s Birthday Honours of June 1981, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), in recognition of service to the arts.[27] (Both his brothers had also been given this honour the previous year.) In the Australia Day Honours of 26 January 1987, he was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), Australia’s highest civilian honour, “in recognition of service to the community, particularly as Chairman of the SA Jubilee 150 Board”.[22]
He was also appointed a Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John (KStJ), and awarded an honorary Doctorate.[citation needed]
Other honours included a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Adelaide Critics Circle in 2007,[18] and the Kym Bonython Fellowship, which provides support to up and coming visual artists and was named in his honour, and was first awarded by the Adelaide Festival Centre in 2010.[28]
Guillermo “Billy” Ford Boyd was a Vice President of Panama died he was , 74. He was one of the running mates of presidential candidate Guillermo Endara during the 1989 Panamanian election campaign. During the election campaign the United States Government allegedly gave $10 million to the Endara campaign, but the election results were annulled by the Panamanian Government on 10 May.[1][2]
(November 11, 1936 – March 19, 2011)
Ford gained international fame when a photo of an attack on him by a man hired by Manuel Noreiga, showing Ford “bloody but unbowed”, appeared on the cover of Time magazine, Newsweek, and U.S. News.[2][3] After a rally in support of Endara and Ford, men with guns, pipes, and wooden planks attacked Ford and his entourage.[2][3] United States president George H. W. Bush called the men hired by Noriega “Doberman thugs”.[3] The iconic photo by Ron Haviv (of AFP), of Ford in his white guayabera shirt splattered bright red with blood “became one of the most famous images of 1989. It was put on the cover of Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News.”[3]
After the United States invaded Panama on 20 December 1989, a judge swore Endara in as President in the United States controlled Canal Zone and Ford was appointed as Vice President.[2] Ford served as Vice President from the end of 1989 until 1994.[2]
Ford died March 19, 2011 in his residency in Panama City, Republic of Panama, and he received a state funeral.[4][5] The Panamanian National Assembly also honored him with a special resolution.[6]
Who is Herman Cain? The political and entertainment world knows Herman Cain as a businessman, political activist, and radio talk-show host from Georgia. He is best known as the former chairman and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza. He is a former deputy chairman (1992–94) and chairman (1995–96) of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Before his business and economics career he worked on ballistics for the United States Navy.[2] Cain’s newspaper column is distributed by North Star Writers Group. He currently lives in the Atlanta suburbs.
In January 2011, Cain announced he had formed an exploratory committee for a potential candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.[3]
After completing his master’s degree from Purdue, Cain left the Department of the Navy and began working for Coca-Cola as a business analyst. In 1977, he joined Pillsbury where he rose to the position of vice president by the early 1980s. He left his executive post to work for Burger King – a Pillsbury subsidiary at the time – managing 400 stores in the Philadelphia area. Under Cain’s leadership, his region went from the least profitable for Burger King to the most profitable in three years. This prompted Pillsbury to appoint him president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, another of their then-subsidiaries. Within 14 months, Cain had returned Godfather’s to profitability. In 1988, Cain and a group of investors bought Godfather’s from Pillsbury. Cain continued as CEO until 1996, when he resigned to become CEO of the National Restaurant Association – a trade group and lobby organization for the restaurant industry – where he had previously been chairman concurrently with his role at Godfather’s.[5]
Radio talk show
Cain hosted The Herman Cain Show on Atlanta talk radio station News Talk 750 WSB, a CNN radio affiliate until February 2011 and serves as a commentator for Fox News Business and a syndicated columnist distributed by the North Star Writers Group. In 2009, Cain founded “Hermanator’s Intelligent Thinkers Movement” (HITM), aimed at organizing 100,000 activists in every congressional district in the United States in support of a strong national defense, the FairTax, tax cuts, energy independence, capping government spending, and Restructuring Social Security.[6]
Political activities
Role in the defeat of the Clinton health care plan
The Clintons would later blame “Harry and Louise,” the fictional couple in the ads aired by the insurance industry, for undermining health reform. But the real saboteurs are named Herman and John. Herman Cain is the president of Godfather’s Pizza and president-elect of the National Restaurant Association. An articulate black entrepreneur, Cain transformed the debate when he challenged Clinton at a town meeting in Kansas City, Mo., last April. Cain asked the president what he was supposed to say to the workers he would have to lay off because of the cost of the “employer mandate.” Clinton responded that there would be plenty of subsidies for small businessmen, but Cain persisted. “Quite honestly, your calculation is inaccurate,” he told the president. “In the competitive marketplace it simply doesn’t work that way.”[7]
Joshua Green of The Atlantic has called Cain’s exchange with Clinton his “auspicious debut on the national political stage.”[8]
2004 U.S. Senate candidacy
In 2004, Cain ran for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, pursuing the seat that came open with the retirement of DemocratZell Miller. Cain sought the Republican nomination, facing congressmen Johnny Isakson and Mac Collins in the primary. Cain and Collins both hoped to deny Isakson a majority on primary day in order to force him into a runoff.[citation needed] Collins tried to paint Cain as a moderate,[9] citing Cain’s support for affirmative action programs, while Cain argued that he was a conservative, noting that he opposed the legality of abortion even in cases of rape and incest.[10] Cain finished second in the primary with 26.2% of the vote, ahead of Collins, who won 20.6%, but because Isakson won 53.2% of the vote, Isakson was able to avoid a runoff.[11]
Support for gold standard
Herman Cain announced his support of the gold standard on a radio program in late 2010: “Yes I believe in the gold standard. We should have never gotten off the gold standard because when we got off the gold standard, that then allowed Congress to inflate our currency whenever they overspent. Now look at the mess that we have.”[12]
However, in early 2011, Cain stated on his radio show that there was no need for an audit of the Federal Reserve.[13]
2012 presidential candidacy
In 2010, “Cain addressed more than 40 Tea Party rallies, hit all the early presidential states, and became a YouTube sensation.”[4] In April, he teased the audience at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference about his being a possible 2012presidential candidate by saying that there may be a “dark horse candidate.”[14][15] On September 24, 2010, Cain announced that he was considering a run for president in 2012 on the Republican Party ticket.[16] “In December, he was the surprise choice for 2012 GOP nominee in a reader poll on the conservative Web site RedState.com, narrowly edging out Palin.”[4]
Cain announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee on January 12, 2011 on the Fox News Channel’s Your World with Neil Cavuto.[3][17]
Cain supports a non-federally subsidized efficient economic stimulus, saying: “We could grow this economy faster if we had bolder, more direct stimulus policies,” criticizing President Barack Obama‘s stimulus plan as simply a “spending bill” instead of meaningful stimulus through permanent tax cuts.[18]
In December 2010, Jonah Goldberg of the National Review wrote of Cain: “it’s hard to imagine him amounting to more than an exciting also-ran.”[19] In February 2011, Cain addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).[20] Ed Morrisey of the conservative website Hot Air said he “stole the show” and that some attendees were moved to tears by the speech.[21] In contrast, liberal website AlterNet accused Cain of pandering to white conservatives and referred to him and other black conservatives as “garbage pail kids”. Cain called the news website’s attacks racist and condemned its “shameful behavior”.[22]
After defending himself against accusations of racism, Cain provoked controversy when he specifically stated that he would be willing to discriminate on grounds of religion when appointing members to his Cabinet, were he elected President, refusing to consider candidates if they were Muslim, on the grounds that such a candidate may support Sharia law. [23]
After the May 5, 2011 Fox News sponsored Presidential debate, Cain was declared the winner by pollster Frank Luntz.[24][25][26]
Personal life
In 2006, Cain was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer in both his colon and his liver. Cain underwent surgery and chemotherapy following the diagnosis, and has since reported that he is cancer-free.[27]
Who is Chastity Sun Bono? The entertainment world knows him as Chaz Salvatore Bono.[1] Bono is an American transgender advocate, writer, actor, and musician. Bono is the only child that American entertainers Sonny and Cher begot together, though each begot other children.[2][3] Bono is a female-to-male transgendered person. In 1995, after several years of being outed as lesbian by the tabloid press, Bono publicly declared herself as such in a cover story in a leading American gay monthly magazine, The Advocate. Bono went on to discuss the process of coming out to oneself and to others in two books. Family Outing: A Guide to the Coming Out Process for Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families (1998) includes the author’s coming out account. The memoir, The End of Innocence (2003) discusses the author’s outing, music career, and partner Joan’s death from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.[4]
Around age 39, Bono underwent female-to-male gender transition. A two-part Entertainment Tonight feature in June 2009 explained that Bono’s transition had started a year before.[5] In May 2010, Bono legally changed gender and name.[6] Bono has made a documentary about his life, which OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will debut.[7]
Early life and education
Bono was born March 4, 1969, he is the only child together of Cher and Sonny Bono of the well-known pop duo Sonny & Cher, who had a top-rated television variety show on which the young child often appeared. Bono was named Chastity Sun Bono after the film Chastity, which was produced by Sonny, and in which Cher – in her first feature film – plays a bisexual woman.[8] The film had its première shortly before Bono’s birth in 1969.
Bono came out to both parents as lesbian at age 18. In Family Outing, Bono wrote that, “as a child, I always felt there was something different about me. I’d look at other girls my age and feel perplexed by their obvious interest in the latest fashion, which boy in class was the cutest, and who looked the most like cover girl Christie Brinkley. When I was 13, I finally found a name for exactly how I was different. I realized I was gay.”[9]
Ceremony
Bono began a short music career with the band Ceremony,[4] which released one album, Hang Out Your Poetry, in 1993. The band featured Bono on vocals, acoustic guitar, and percussion. Other members were Steve March Tormé (backup vocals), Heidi Shink a.k.a. Chance, Pete McRae, Steve Bauman, Louis Ruiz, and Bryn Mathieu. All but one of the band’s songs were written or co-written by Bono, Shink, and Mark Hudson. They used no synthesizers or digital effects on the album; Shink noted, “We turned our back on technology. [ … ] It’s reminiscent of the 60s, but more a tip of the hat than emulating it. We took the music we love and rejuvenated it, made it 90’s.”[10]
The song “Could’ve Been Love” was released as a single from the album. The album’s other tracks are “Goodbye Sunshine”, “Steal Your Heart”, “Day by Day”, “Ready for Love”, “Ready for Love (Refrain)”, “Hang Out Your Poetry”, “Turn It Over”, “Trust”, “2 of 1”, “First Day of My Life”, “Breathless”, “Living in a Paradise”, and “Livin’ It Up”. Sonny and Cher recorded backing vocals (uncredited) for the last song.
LGBT activism and spokesperson
In April 1995, Bono came out as lesbian in an interview with The Advocate, a national gay and lesbian magazine.[11] The 1998 book Family Outing detailed how Bono’s coming out “catapulted me into a political role that has transformed my life, providing me with affirmation as a lesbian, as a woman, and as an individual.”[12] In the same book, Bono reported that Cher, who was both a gay icon and ally to LGBT communities, was quite uncomfortable with the news at first, and “went ballistic”[13] before coming to terms with it: “By August 1996, one year after I came out publicly, my mother had progressed so far that she agreed to ‘come out’ herself on the cover of The Advocate as the proud mother of a lesbian daughter.”[12] Cher has since become an outspoken LGBT rights activist. Bono’s paternal relationship became strained after Sonny became a RepublicanCongressman from California. The differences in their political views separated them, and the two had not spoken for more than a year at the time of Sonny’s fatal skiing accident in January 1998.[11]
Bono worked as a writer at large for The Advocate.[4] As a social activist, Bono became a spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, promoting National Coming Out Day, campaigning for the reelection of Bill Clinton for U.S. President, campaigning against the Defense of Marriage Act, and serving as Entertainment Media Director for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).[4] Bono was one of the team captains for Celebrity Fit Club 3 (2006) and was supported by girlfriend Jennifer, who orchestrated exercise and training sessions.[5]
Gender transition
In mid-2008, Bono began undergoing a physical and social gender transition from female to male. This was confirmed in June 2009 by his publicist,[5] who identified Bono’s preferred name as Chaz Bono and said, “It is Chaz’s hope that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue, just as his coming out did.”[14]GLAAD and the Empowering Spirits Foundation were quick to offer praise and support for the announcement.[15][16] Bono’s legal transition was completed on May 7, 2010, when a California court granted his request for a gender and name change.[6][17] Bono made a documentary film about his sex change that premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network acquired the rights to the documentary and will debut it later in 2011.
Navin Nischol was an Indianactor. He made his debut with the Hindi film Sawan Bhadon in 1970 died from a heart attack he was , 65.
(18 March 1946 – 19 March 2011)
Early life
He studied in Rashtriya Military School Bangalore erstwhile King George Royal India Military College, Bangalore. He was the first gold medalist from the Film and Television Institute of India to make it big. He starred in several superhits, such as Victoria No. 203 (1972) and Dhund (1973). At one time, he was popularly known as the “poor man’s Rajesh Khanna” – an allusion to his being an inferior copy of the much-more-in-demand Rajesh Khanna. Later on, Nischol switched over to character roles and carved out a successful career for himself in television. One of his most successful serials on television was “Dekh Bhai Dekh“, co-starring Sushma Seth, Shekhar Suman and Farida Jalal.[1] He also starred in the Punjabi films Aasra Pyar Da (1983) and Mahaul Theek Hai (1999).
Personal life
Navin studied at the Bangalore Military School. He was first married to Dev Anand‘s niece, Neelu Kapur, sister of Shekhar Kapur. After Neelu found out that Navin was having an affair with starlet Padmini Kapila, she divorced him, and turned to Christianity. Shortly after that Padmini started having an affair with director Prakash Mehra, and broke up with Navin. Navin then had an affair with Pimma, a Delhi-based married woman with two children. Navin married divorcee Geetanjali. On 24 April 2006, Geetanjali hanged herself at her residence. She blamed both Navin and his brother, Pravin, for her suicide.[2]
Nischol died of a heart attack on 19 March 2011 en route from Mumbai to Pune. He was 65 years old when he died.[3]
James Paul “Jim” Roslof was an American artist and graphic designer particularly well-known for cover art and interior illustrations of fantasy role-playing games published by TSR, Inc. during the “golden age” of Dungeons & Dragons died from cancer. he was , 64. As Art Director at TSR in the early 1980s, he was also responsible for hiring many of the young artists who would go on to prominent careers in the fantasy role-playing industry.
As a fantasy artist, one of Roslof’s best known pieces of artwork is his cover for Keep on the Borderlands, of which more than one million copies were sold.
(November 21, 1946 – March 19, 2011)
Before TSR
Jim Roslof was born November 21, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois to Edward E. and Gertrude (Kibitlewski) Roslof.[1]
Early in his career in the late 1960s, Jim Roslof was a contributor of cover art to the counterculture underground newspaper Chicago Seed.[2]
the hardcover rule book Deities & Demigods in which he provided illustrations of the entire Greek pantheon (1980)
various issues of TSR’s Dragon magazine, commencing with issue #42 (October 1980)
Roslof also provided the cover art for some of AD&D’s greatest adventures:
Queen of the Demonweb Pits (voted the single greatest adventure of all time, in compilation with the rest of the GDQ series, by Dungeon magazine in 2004)[4]
The last of these is perhaps Jim’s best known work, since the adventure was included in later printings of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set[5], of which over one million copies were sold.[6]
In May 1981, despite the large amount of artwork needed for an ever-increasing number of company products, temperamental TSR manager Kevin Blume fired two of the six staff artists, Paul Reiche and Evan Robinson, on what TSR editor Steve Winter described as “trumped-up charges of insubordination”.[7] When Bill Willingham and Jeff Dee complained, they were also fired, leaving only Roslof and Erol Otus as the art department. Roslof was promoted to Art Director, but instead of simply staying with the style of art that had defined TSR products since 1975, Roslof hired a cadre of brilliant artists whose artwork would define TSR to a generation, and who would all go on to successful careers as fantasy artists: Jim Holloway, Larry Elmore, Jeff Easley, Harry Quinn, Keith Parkinson, Tim Truman and Clyde Caldwell. Parkinson recalled how he was hired: “I drove up one day to see if I could do some freelance work. Jim Roslof, who was the Art Director, hinted that I could join the staff full-time, but I missed the hint. A few days later, I called him about a job, and he had just hired somebody else the day before, but he’d keep me in mind. The next day, he called back, and had an opening.”[8]
The artists gathered in what TSR staffers called “the pit”. As Scott Taylor recalled, the pit was “a place of creation for all the onsite artists of the growing company. Here countless worlds were born among rubber-band wars and constant deadline pressure. Still, the pit was a place of ultimate creation, a venue where artists worked together for inspiration, guidance, and commiseration in a time before the internet gave purchase to a web of greater connection.”[9]
In addition to giving direction to many disparate projects, Roslof also continued to provide artwork for TSR, including In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords, the hardcover book Fiend Folio published by TSR UK, Descent into the Depths of the Earth, Dwellers of the Forbidden City and the Dungeoneer’s Survival Guide. He also provided some of the artwork for TSR’s Monster Cards,[10] including original depictions for monsters such as the wemic,[11] and in 1986 produced illustrations for the first issue of Dungeon.[3]
After TSR
After leaving TSR, Roslof moved to Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Some of his art was used in the Blood Wars Card Game.[12] In 2005, Goodman Games began to publish a series of D&D adventures called “Dungeon Crawl Classics”.[13] Although they used an up-to-date version of rules, they were a deliberate throwback in content and style to TSR’s “dungeon crawl” adventures of the 1970s and early 1980s. Several authors from TSR’s heyday, including Monte Cook and Dave Arneson were hired to write adventures, and artists such as Roslof, Jim Dee and Jim Holloway provided artwork. Roslof contributed cover art to two of the adventures, Dungeon Crawl Classics #29: The Adventure Begins (2006), and Dungeon Crawl Classics # 43: Curse of the Barrens (2007).[3]
As well as creating fantasy artwork, Roslof was also a professional graphic designer[1] and inventor, with several patent applications for merchandising systems he worked on for DCI Marketing, Inc., the retail marketing subsidiary of IMI plc.[14][15]
Personal life
Jim Roslof married Laura S. Miller on April 25, 1968 in Aptos, California; they had three children, and four grandchildren at the time of his death.[1]
Laura Roslof was also involved in the creation of artwork for Dungeons & Dragons products, including the recalled version of Palace of the Silver Princess, and currently runs a stained glass art studio in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.[16]
Roslof died at his home in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, on Saturday March 19, 2011.[1]
Christian Louis, Baron de Massy (Noghès) (b. Monaco, 17 January 1949), married firstly in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, on 14 November 1970 and divorced in 1978 María Marta Quintana y del Carril (b. London, 17 June 1951)[1] and had one daughter, Leticia;[1] married secondly in Ramatuelle on 11 September 1982 and divorced in 1987 Anne Michelle Lütken (28 November 1959 – London, 25 November 2001), without issue; married thirdly in Geneva Julia Lakschin (b. November 6 1968) on April 1992, without issue, and divorced in 1995; and married fourthly Cécile Gelabale (b. Guadeloupe), and had one son, Antoine, and adopted another, Brice Gelabale:
Princess Antoinette and Alexandre Noghès subsequently married in Genoa on 4 December 1951 (her first, his second) and divorced in 1954.
On 15 November 1951, Antoinette was created Baroness of Massy (Baronne de Massy). Her children (Elisabeth-Anne, Christian and Christine) were named Grimaldi at birth. They subsequently had their names changed to de Massy. They claim the title of Baron/Baroness through their mother, but they are not entitled to it.[4]
She married her second husband, Dr. Jean-Charles Rey (Monaco, 22 October 1914 – Monaco, 17 September 1994), president of the Conseil National, the Parlement de Monaco in The Hague on 2 December 1961 and they divorced in 1974.
Having divorced[dubious– discuss]Noghès, she and her lover Jean-Charles Rey hatched a plan to depose her brother Rainier III, Prince of Monaco and declare herself Regent on the basis of having a son who would one day inherit the throne. She circulated rumours that Rainier’s fiancee, actress Gisèle Pascal, was infertile. This led to the breakup of the relationship.[5]
Rainier’s marriage to Grace Kelly in 1956 and the arrival of his heirs, Princess Caroline in 1957 and Prince Albert in 1958, effectively scuttled Antoinette’s plans. She was removed from the Palace by her sister-in-law, Princess Grace and thereafter was estranged from the princely family for many years.[citation needed]
She was known to be somewhat eccentric, even having been described as “completely mad” by her servants. Having been banished from Monaco in the late 1950s, she lived down the coast from Monaco at Èze, with a large collection of dogs and cats. She was the president of Monaco’s Society for the Protection of Animals. [6]
Upon the death of Rainier III in 2005, Antoinette and her descendants lost their place in the line of succession to the Monegasque throne, due to the 2002 amendment of the succession rules.[citation needed]
Death
On 18 March 2011 Princess Antoinette died at The Princess Grace Hospital Centre, aged 90.[6] Her funeral took place on 24 March 2011 at 10 a.m. She was buried in Chapel of Peace, in Monaco.
Christopher’s professional activities have included service as President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, 1974–1975; Chairman of the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary of the American Bar Association, 1975–1976; member of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California 1975–1976; and Special Counsel to California Governor Edmund G. Brown in 1959.
Christopher’s civic activities have included the following: member and President of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University; Chairman, Carnegie Corporation of New York Board of Trustees; Director and Vice Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Director, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, Los Angeles World Affairs Council; Vice Chairman of the Governor’s Commission on the Watts riots (The McCone Commission) in 1965-1966; President, Coordinating Council for Higher Education in the State of California; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and Chairman Emeritus, Pacific Council on International Policy.
In 1991, Christopher served as Chairman of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, which came to be known as the Christopher Commission. The Commission proposed significant reforms of the Los Angeles Police Department in the aftermath of the Rodney King incident (see 1992 Los Angeles riots), which were approved overwhelmingly at the ballot box. In 1992, Christopher headed the vice presidential search for Governor Bill Clinton and served as the Director of the Presidential Transition.
Assassination attempt on George H. W. Bush, April 1993
On April 13, 1993, eleven Iraqi intelligence agents smuggled a car bomb into Kuwait in an attempt to kill former President George H. W. Bush as he spoke at Kuwait University.[3] Secretary Christopher, among others, urged President Clinton to make a retaliatory strike against Iraq.[4] On June 26, 1993, the United States launched 23 Tomahawk missiles against the Baghdad intelligence headquarters.[5]
Oslo Accords, September 1993
In August 1993, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators meeting in Norway drew up the Oslo Accords, which created the Palestinian Authority in exchange for Palestinian recognition of Israel’s right to exist. Secretary Christopher accepted Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres‘s offer to host the signing ceremony. The ceremony took place in Washington D.C. on 13 September 1993, with Yasser Arafat signing for the Palestine Liberation Organization and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signing for the State of Israel. It was witnessed by Secretary Christopher for the United States and Andrei Kozyrev for Russia, in the presence of President Clinton.[6] Christopher was one of main visionaries and proponent of an integrated Middle East.[7]
Partnership for Peace NATO expansion, January 1994
In order to initiate further enlargement of NATO with minimal backlash from Russia, Secretary Christopher promoted the Partnership for Peace program as a stepping-stone into full NATO membership. Against protests from the Pentagon, Christopher avidly supported NATO expansion as a means of protecting Eastern Europe against a possible Russian resurgence. President Clinton supported the program and Partnership for Peace was launched January 10, 1994. Despite much debate, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland signed on as Partnership members that year and became full NATO members in 1999.[8][9][10][11]
Rwandan Genocide, April 1994
In what is recognized as Christopher’s greatest foreign policy mistake, the US and UN failed to react quickly enough to the unrest in Kigali which eventually exploded into the Rwandan Genocide. Over the course of approximately 100 days, from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April up until mid July, between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia.[12]
China: Delinking human rights and trade status, May 1994
During the 1992 presidential campaign, then-candidate Clinton blasted President George H. W. Bush for giving China low-tariff trading privileges despite its human rights abuses. Secretary Christopher agreed with this view and believed that the US should use economic pressure to force China to improve its human rights record. However, on May 26, 1994, President Clinton renewed China’s low-tariff trading privileges, effectively delinking the human rights issue from China’s trade relations with the US. U.S.-Sino relations improved as a result, with President Jiang Zemin visiting the U.S. in November 1997 and President Clinton visiting China in June 1998.[13]
Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, September 1994
On September 19, 1994, a US-led coalition returned Haiti‘s popularly elected President Jean-Bertrande Aristide to power after a coup had unseated him. The US military effort, known as Operation Uphold Democracy, was largely the product of Colin Powell‘s diplomatic efforts, with little role played by Christopher.[14]
In the wake of the 1993 Oslo Accords, Secretary Christopher encouraged Jordan’s King Hussein to make a peace treaty with Israel. Christopher eventually offered Hussein $200 million in military equipment and $700 million in debt forgiveness to sweeten the deal. On October 27, 1994, Prime Minister Rabin and Prime Minister Abdelsalam al-Majali signed the Israel–Jordan peace treaty. The signing was witnessed by President Clinton and Secretary Christopher. Christopher sought to obtain a similar treaty between Rabin and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, but to no avail.[15]
Vietnam: Normalizing relations, July 1995
Working with Senator John McCain, in 1994 Secretary Christopher began actively promoting the normalization of United States–Vietnam relations. At the time, the U.S. had not had an embassy in Vietnam since 1975. The main obstacle to normalization came from veterans and POW/MIA support groups who were convinced that Hanoi was not fully cooperating in the search for the remains of US soldiers in Vietnam. However, after Secretary Christopher convinced President Clinton that the Vietnamese government was fully cooperating in these searches, the President announced the formal normalization of diplomatic relations with Vietnam on July 11, 1995.[16]
In the wake of the Khobar Towers bombing, Secretary Christopher traveled to Saudi Arabia to witness the site of the attack. In Dhahran (the home of the Khobar Towers), Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal allegedly promised Christopher that the FBI would have the full cooperation of the Saudi government. Eventually, however, the Saudi government and the FBI repeatedly conflicted during the course of the investigation.[18]
Retirement
In addition to several honorary degrees, Christopher received the following awards: the Jefferson Award from the American Institute for Public Service for the Greatest Public Service Performed by an Elected or Appointed Official; the UCLA Medal; the Harold Weill Medal from New York University; the James A. Garfield Baller Award; the Thomas Jefferson Award in Law from the University of Virginia Law School; and the Louis Stein Award from Fordham Law School.
Christopher’s picture hangs in the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, near pictures of John Kerry, Robert McNamara, Elmo Zumwalt, and other American dignitaries, in commemoration of his visit to Vietnam, after normalization of relations between the two countries.[19]
At the 1999 unveiling of his portrait at the Department of State, attended by President Clinton, Christopher remarked: “To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you’re painted into a corner, then you’re hung out to dry and, finally, you’re framed.”
He was sent to supervise the contested Florida recount for Al Gore in the U.S. presidential election, 2000.
He was a member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) Board of Advisors.
He was an Advisory Board member for the Partnership for a Secure America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy.
Former Secretaries of State James A. Baker, III and Christopher served as Co-Chairs of the Miller Center’s National War Powers Commission. Baker and Christopher testified on March 5 before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the War Powers Consultation Act of 2009 – the statute that the Commission unanimously recommended in its July 2008 report. The statute is designed to replace the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and provide for more meaningful consultation between the president and Congress on matters of war.
From 2003 until his death, Christopher taught a small seminar course on international affairs as part of the Honors Program at UCLA.[20]
Family
Warren Christopher married twice. First for six years[when?] to Joan Southgate Workman with whom he had a daughter, Lynn. The couple later divorced.[21] He was married to Marie Wyllis from 1956 until his death; the couple had two sons: Scott and Thomas, and a daughter, Kristen.[2] He wrote In the Stream of History: Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era (1998) and Chances of a Lifetime (2001).
Christopher served as an Honorary Co-Chair for the World Justice Project.[23] The World Justice Project works to lead a global, multidisciplinary effort to strengthen the Rule of Law for the development of communities of opportunity and equity.[24]
Death
Christopher died at his home in Los Angeles on March 18, 2011, from complications of kidney and bladder cancer.[1][25][26] He was survived by his wife and four children from two marriages.[1][26][27]
President Obama described Christopher as a “resolute pursuer of peace” for his work in the Middle East and the Balkans.[28] Hillary Clinton described Christopher as a “diplomat’s diplomat – talented, dedicated and exceptionally wise”.[29] He was described as “the best public servant I ever knew” by President Jimmy Carter in his memoirs.[26] On March 19, 2011, Carter stated that “[America] has lost a great and revered leader”.[30]
Harris, the only child[1] of Bill and Winifred Harris,[2] was born Terence Harris at Honeypot Lane, Kingsbury, North London, England.[3] His prowess as a sprinter at Dudden Hill secondary modern school earned him the nickname Jet.[4] Although he learned to play clarinet as a teenager, he made his own four-string double bass to play in a jazzgroup and later graduated to a professionally made double bass. In 1958, while playing jazz with drummerTony Crombie and his group the Rockets, Crombie got a Framus bass guitar for Harris, making him one of the first British exponents of the instrument.[4]
He played in several groups including the Vipers Skiffle Group and the Most Brothers before, in 1959, joining Cliff Richard‘s backing group the Drifters,[5] who later changed their name to The Shadows at Harris’s suggestion. In 1959, after the neck of his Framus was terminally damaged in a dressing room accident, he was presented by the importers with a Fender Precision Bass, one of the first to come to Britain from the United States.[citation needed]
Harris also contributed vocally, adding backupharmonies and occasional lead vocals. He had a trademark scream used in the Shadows’ “Feeling Fine” and Cliff Richard’s “Do You Wanna Dance?”
In Mike Read‘s book The Story of the Shadows Harris lays the blame for the start of his depression and related alcohol addiction with Carol Costa, whom he married in 1959.[1] She, the first of Harris’s four wives, had an affair with Cliff Richard, and remains the only woman known definitively to have slept with Richard.[6]
In 1962, he left the Shadows following disagreements (documented in The Story of The Shadows, written by the group with Mike Read).[7] He had been forced to resign after Bruce Welch made an off-hand remark about his wife’s ongoing affair with Richard. He had never been given time off from the Shadows during 1959-62 to facilitate a reconciliation with his wife and/or deal with his depression and alcoholism.
With Tony Meehan
He signed with Decca and released solo instrumental and vocal work with some success. Then, as part of a duo with former Shadows drummer Tony Meehan, he topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in early 1963 with “Diamonds“.[8] Harris and Meehan followed this with two further hit singles, “Scarlett O’Hara” (also written by Jerry Lordan) a UK #2, and “Applejack” (composed by Les Vandyke) reaching UK #4 also in 1963.[8] Harris’s singles were relatively unusual in that they made prominent use of the bass as a lead instrument which was an idea he got from Big Jim Sullivan, and the best of them—”Diamonds,” “The Man With the Golden Arm”, and “Man From Nowhere”—had a menacing, shuddering bass reminiscent of the best James Bondsoundtracks.[3] Harris was partly responsible for helping both Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones break into the music business. Page’s first major session was as a rhythm guitarist on “Diamonds”, in late 1962. After “Diamonds” became a hit, Harris and Meehan hired Jones to play bass in their touring band.[9] There were several court appearances involving drunkenness and violent behaviour [4]before the partnership with Meehan came to an abrupt end in September 1963 when a car crash (in which his girl-friend, singer Billie Davis,[10] was also injured), meant that this success did not last long.[3][11] Harris attempted a solo comeback in 1966 and was briefly in the line-up of the Jeff Beck Group in 1967, but somewhat fell out of the music industry.[3] He then worked variously as a labourer, bricklayer, porter in a hospital, bus conductor, and as a seller of cockles on the beach in Jersey.
Later career
Harris was declared bankrupt in 1988.[2] The BBC reported that it took Harris 30 years of heavy drinking before he finally admitted to being an alcoholic and sought help. For many years Harris made a point in his stage shows of saying how long it had been since he quit drinking, winning applause from audiences who knew how it had wrecked his career in the 60s. But fans noted that from 2007 Harris stopped saying he no longer drank. Harris still played occasionally, with backing band the Diamonds or as a guest with the Rapiers, and teamed up with Tony Meehan for a support performance in Cliff Richard’s 1989 ‘The Event’ concerts.
In 1998, he was awarded a Fender Lifetime Achievement Award for his role in popularising the bass guitar in Britain. He appeared annually in Bruce Welch’s ‘Shadowmania’ and tours each year with the Rapiers (a Shadows tribute band) who are recordingartists in their own right. He recorded continuously from the late 1980s with a variety of collaborators including Tangent, Alan Jones (also an ex-Shadows bassist who retired due to a serious car accident), Bobby Graham and the Local Heroes. His previous problems with stage nerves had seemingly disappeared, and 2006 saw Harris’s first single release in over forty years, “San Antonio”.[citation needed]
In 2007 Harris was invited by legendary UK singer Marty Wilde to be special guest on his 50th Anniversary tour. This culminated in an evening at the London Palladium with other guests including Wilde’s daughters Kim and Roxanne, Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues, members of the original Wildcats – Big Jim Sullivan, Licorice Locking and Brian Bennett, who also joined Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch of the Shadows on stage with Wilde and his band the Wildcats (Neville Marten and Eddie Allen on guitar, Roger Newell bass, John Dutton keyboards and Bryan Fitzpatrick, drums). The show’s finale featured the closest thing to a Shadows reunion possible with Marvin, Welch, Harris and Brian Bennett (who in 1962 had replaced the late Tony Meehan) all appearing on stage with the show’s company.
The evening was filmed and a DVD released, with Harris playing three songs – “Diamonds”, “Theme From Something Really Important” and “Scarlett O’Hara” – backed by the Wildcats.
So successful was this tour that Wilde repeated the invitation to join him on his 2010 Born To Rock And Roll tour, which finished in Basingstoke on November 20. Harris has said that this was his most enjoyable working experience in years.
In a December 2008 interview for the Daily Mail, Harris spoke about not having been invited to join the Shadows for their 50th anniversary, at the Royal Variety Performance.[12]
His fan club arranged a 70th birthday party for him on 5 July 2009, at the Winter Gardens, Weston-Super-Mare.[13] He resided in Bembridge, Isle of Wight,[14] while receiving treatment for throat cancer.
MBE
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.[15]
In 2010, Harris was presented with a special award from the US Fender guitar company for his services to their company in effectively launching their bass guitar in the UK in 1960.
“Diamonds” b/w “Footstomp” (with Tony Meehan) – January 1963 (Decca F11563) UK #1
“Scarlett O’Hara” b/w “(Doing the) Hully Gully” (with Tony Meehan) – April 1963 (Decca F11644) UK #2
“Applejack” (with Tony Meehan) – September 1963 (Decca F11710) UK #4
“Theme For a Fallen Idol” / “Guitar Man”
“Big Bad Bass” / “Rifka”
“Diamonds” / “Big Bad Bass From Texas”
“My Lady” / “You Don’t Live Twice” – 1967 (Fontana TF 849) (arranged by Tony Meehan)
“San Antonio” (solo) – 2006
“Jet Harris / Wild One (Real Wild Child) – Decca[8]
EPs
Jet Harris – Decca DFE 8502
Albums
Inside Jet Harris – Ellie Jay Records/ Castle Records (1977)
Diamonds and Other Gems – Deram 820634-2 (1989)
The Anniversary Album – Q Records (1992)
Twelve Great Guitar Gems – Zing Records (1994)
Live Over England – Zing Records (1996)
Beyond The Shadow of a Doubt – Zing Records (1993)
Two of a Kind (with Alan Jones) – Zing Records (1997)
Tributes and Rarities – Zing Records (1995)
One of Our Shadows is Missing (with The Local Heroes) (1998)
The Phoenix Rises – Mustang Music (2001)
Diamonds are Trumps – Solent Records (2002)
The Journey – Crazy Lighthouse Records (2007)
Bibliography
Books
Driftin’ with Cliff Richard, by J. Harris, R. Ellis and C. Richard
The Shadows by Themselves by Royston Ellis with The Shadows. Consul Books. 1961. No ISBN.
The Story of the Shadows by Mike Read. 1983. Elm Tree books. ISBN 0-241-10861-6.
That Sound (From “Move It” on, the story of the magic sound of The Shadows), by R.Pistolesi, M.Addey & M.Mazzini. Publ: Vanni Lisanti. June 2000. No ISBN.
The Complete Rock Family Rock Trees, by Pete Frame. Omnibus. ISBN 0711968799.
Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles and Albums (19th Edn), David Roberts. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
The Complete Book of the British Charts Singles and Albums, by Neil Warwick, Jon Kutner & Tony Brown, 3rd Edn. ISBN 978-1844490585.
Charlie Metro (born Charles Moreskonich);was an outfielder for the Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Athletics, as well as a manager for the Chicago Cubs and the Kansas City Royals died from mesothelioma he was , 91.. He adopted the name “Metro” from his father, Metro Moreskonich, a Ukrainian immigrant. At age 18, he attended a tryout camp for the St. Louis Browns, and he bounced around in the minor leagues. In 1940, he joined the Texarkana Liners, then an independent baseball team but which became affiliated with the Detroit Tigers. Due to his light hitting ability, he was never able to become a full-time starter, although he did make the Tigers club out of spring training in 1943. He was released by the Tigers in 1944, partly because of his attempts to organize a players union.
(April 28, 1919 – March 18, 2011)
The Philadelphia Athletics picked him up, and, under Connie Mack, Metro won ‘a shot’ at starting center fielder; but his inability to hit consistently cost him this job. At the end of 1944 he joined the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League, where he played under another manager, Casey Stengel. In 1947, he was hired as a manager within the New York Yankees organization, and soon he moved up the ranks to AAA. Eventually, he got his first big-league managing job with the Chicago Cubs in their “College of Coaches.” He was fired after the 1962 season; then he joined the crosstown Chicago White Sox as a scout, but soon returned to managing in the PCL.
In 1968, Metro joined the front office of the expansion Kansas City Royals, where he had an active hand in the expansion draft. He took over as manager when Joe Gordon resigned after only one season at the helm.[2] But there his stint as manager was shorter than his Cubs tenure, lasting only 54 games (19 wins-35 losses). He was replaced by Bob Lemon. Metro went back to scouting for the Tigers and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Then followed coaching stints with the Oakland Athletics, and in 1984 he returned to the Dodgers as a scout. After being dismissed by Los Angeles, Metro retired to his Denver ranch. He died in Buckingham, Virginia on March 18, 2011 from mesothelioma.
Wipper formed the Kanawa International Collection of Canoes, Kayaks and Rowing Craft.[1] His collection, which consisted of more than six hundred individual watercraft, including kayaks and canoes, became the basis for what would become the Canadian Canoe Museum.[1] In 1957, Wipper was gifted a dugout canoe, which is believed to have been crafted in 1890.[1] Wipper soon began collecting other watercraft, which grew to approximately one hundred fifty pieces by the late 1960s.[1] Wipper constructed a facility to house his collection at Camp Kandalore, a summer camp he owned in the vicinity of Dorset, Ontario.[1] However, his growing collection outgrew this building, necessitating a search for a new facility.[1] Wipper was contacted by a group of individuals, including several affiliated with the Trent University, who were interested in moving his collection to a permanent exhibition space in Peterborough, Ontario.[1] Wipper agreed to the proposal and a board of directors was formed for the project in 1989.[1] In 1994, Wipper donated his entire collection to the new Canadian Canoe Museum in Petersborough.[1] He remained active in the museum as a volunteer and consultant.[1]
Academic career
Wipper became a faculty member of the University of Toronto‘s School of Physical and Health Education in 1950.[1] He worked as an assistant professor at the University of Toronto until his retirement in 1987.[1] Wipper then served as the director of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award of Canada and the President of the Royal Life Saving Society of Canada following his retirement from academia.[1] Wipper also founded Camp Kandalore in Ontario and co-founded the Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association[2]
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