Waylon JenningsAge: 64 country musician who, with Willie Nelson, epitomized the genre's outlaw movement of the 1960s and early '70s. He recorded 60 albums and boasted 16 No. 1 hits, including…
Gabe PaulAge: 88 renowned wheeling and dealing baseball executive partly responsible for building the Reds' teams of the 1960s and the Yankees' teams of the 1970s; briefly worked with the…
musicianBorn: September 28, 1928Died: June 3, 2009 (Chicago, Illinois, USA) Best Known as: blues singer Born in Tennessee, the daughter of a sharecropper,…
by Robert Burns The Gallant WeaverYou're Welcome, Willie StewartEpigram At Brownhill Inn[1] At Brownhill we always get dainty good cheer,
And plenty of bacon each day in the…
by Robert Burns Inscription At Friars' Carse HermitageWee Willie GrayThere Was A Bonie Lass There was a bonie lass, and a bonie, bonie lass,
And she lo'ed her bonie laddie dear…
The 50th Annual National Book Awards were presented November 17, 1999, at New York City's Marriott Marquis Hotel.Fiction:Waiting, Ha Jin (Pantheon)Nonfiction:Embracing Defeat: Japan in the…
Bill MauldinAge: 81 army sergeant and cartoonist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his works featuring Willie and Joe, two bedraggled World War II infantrymen who battled not only the Germans, but…
