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The Beatles backstage with Roy Orbison, in sunglasses, and Gerry and the Pacemakers in 1963 in Britain. Illustrates BEATLES (category e), by Forrest Wickman (c) 2013, Slate. Moved Thursday, May 23, 2013. (MUST CREDIT: From “The Beatles in Liverpool,” by Spencer Leigh, courtesy of Mark Naboshek Collection.)

Orbison Biography: Man Behind the Ray-Bans

Sunday, June 16, 2013

When biographer John Kruth writes that Roy Orbison’s “life seemed to mirror that of Job’s from the Old Testament,” he is not stretching too far to make a point. The singer’s first wife died in a motorcycle accident with Orbison just a few hundred yards down the road ahead of her; two of his sons died as boys in a house fire while the singer was overseas. Poor management contributed to a series of bad albums and to Orbison being nearly forgotten. Yet, like Job, as Kruth tells the tale in Rhapsody in Black: The Life and Music of Roy Orbison , Orbison had a …

William Fields, Alabama, 1936. Excerpted from a newly discovered collaboration by James Agee and Walker Evans. Illustrates BOOKS-AGEE (category e), by James Agee and Walker Evans (c) 2013, Slate. Moved Wednesday, June 12, 2013. (MUST CREDIT: Walker Evans/Courtesy of the Library of Congress.)

‘You Ain’t Never Seen Trouble  Till You Lose a Youngun’

Sunday, June 16, 2013

How late in her pregnancy a woman works around the house and in the fields and how soon she gets back to work again depends on her health and how much grit she has. Since that is the code she believes in and lives up to the answer is, she works as late …

Overdue 70-Some Years, Book Returned to Stevens

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Claremont — At the entrance of the Stevens High School library this time of year, there is a reminder posted on a board that all library books have to be returned before school ends for the summer. For students who forget — or perhaps misplaced — a book, or two they should always remember it is never too late to return one to …

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