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by Kathy Wolfe The music industry has suffered many sad losses over the years. This week, Tidbits brings a sampling of those talented legends whose premature deaths resulted in promising careers cut short. • • Baby boomers will recall Ricky Nelson as one of the biggest teen idols of the 1950s and 1960s. Starting out on his family’s television show “Ozzie & Harriet,” Nelson began his recording career in 1961 with the million-selling “Travelin’ Man,” followed by another chart topper “Hello, Mary Lou.” He was still recording in the 1980s with his Stone Canyon Band when he composed the hit “Garden Party.” As Nelson, his fiancée and band members were jetting to a New Year’s Eve 1985 performance, a fire caused by a malfunctioning heater broke out in their DC-3, and the plane crashed, killing the 45-year-old singer and several others. • • Soul singer Otis Redding recorded just one million-seller and No. 1 hit. Just three days after recording “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” in 1967, the 26-year-old Redding and his band boarded a plane in Wisconsin, encountered a storm, and crashed into Lake Monona. Four months later, the song hit the top spot on the charts. • • One crash took the lives of three rising stars in 1959. Considered a pioneer of rock and roll, 22-year-old Buddy Holly, only a year and a half into his career, had already scored hits “That’ll Be the Day” and “Peggy Sue.” He was on the “Winter Dance Party” tour in February of 1959 with 17-year-old newcomer Ritchie Valens, a teen idol who had just released “La Bamba,” and 29-year-old “Big Bopper” Richardson. The Bopper had recently scored a big hit with “Chantilly Lace.” The winter weather was bitter cold as the tour got underway, with the situation aggravated by a malfunction of the heater on ...continued on page 2

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Laugh Lines! A man went to prison for the first time. He was in a cell with another man, and just as the lights were turned out in the evening he heard somebody from another cell shout out “Thirty-one!” All of a sudden everybody in the cell block burst out with laughter. Then another voice shouted “Fifty-six!” Again everybody burst out with laughter. The man was puzzled as to what was going on, so he turned to his cell mate and asked: “Why is it, when somebody shouts out a number, everybody bursts out with laughter?” His cell mate replied: “Well, you see, down in the prison library we have a joke book that contains every joke ever told. And we’ve all been in here so long we’ve all memorized all the jokes. So now, when anybody wants to tell a joke, they just have to shout out the page number from the book.” The man thought about this and decided that he would have a look at this book. So the next day he went down to the prison library and read a few pages. He wrote down the numbers on a bit of paper because they were so good he wanted to tell them to the others later. That night, after lights out he shouted out “Seventy-six!” He waited for laughter but there wasn’t any. He tried another one. “Twenty!” Again silence. He couldn’t understand why nobody was laughing. He asked his cell mate, “Why is nobody laughing?” His cell mate replied “It must be the way you tell them.”

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their bus. After completing their gig in Clear Lake, Iowa, the group was due to play in Fargo, North Dakota, the following night. The Big Bopper had the flu, and Holly made the decision to charter a plane to Fargo. With limited seating on the Beechcraft Bonanza, they flipped a coin for seats. Valens won the toss. Bass player Waylon Jennings gave up his winning seat to the Bopper. Within minutes after takeoff, the craft crashed, killing all aboard. It was “the day the music died,” according to the 1971 Don McLean musical tribute “American Pie.” • • The career of 30-year-old Jim Croce was flourishing in 1973. He had topped the charts with three hits, “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim,” “Time in a Bottle” and “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.” But life on the road was taking its toll on the young singer, and he became homesick for his wife and infant son. Two months after “Leroy” hit No. 1, Croce chartered a plane home for a break. Shortly after takeoff from a Louisiana airport, the Beechcraft E18S hit a tree, killing Croce and four others. • • Considered one of the greatest singers of all time, the velvet-voiced crooner Karen Carpenter, along with brother Richard, racked up 17 Top 20 hits and sales of more than 100 million records in the 1970s, including “Close to You” and “We’ve Only Just Begun.” Yet this beautiful girl with the wholesome image struggled with anorexia for years, and desperate to look slim on stage, dropped as low as 79 pounds. The eating disorder took its toll on her heart and eventually claimed her life in 1983 when she was just 32. • • Even young people have heard the music of Big Band trombonist Glenn Miller, although his music career was only three and a half years long. Such hits as “In the Mood” and “Chattanooga Choo Choo” have endured for decades, and even the re-issues of his hits 40 years after his death have achieved gold status. Miller and his swing band scored 31 Top Ten hits in 1940 and another 11 in 1941, making him the top recording artist for both years. In 1942, the 38-year-old Miller left behind his $20,000-per-week income and joined the Army, organizing a 45-member military band that performed for troops and war-bond rallies. In 1944, on a flight to Paris, his plane disappeared over the English Channel. It wasn’t determined whether the craft had been shot down or had crashed due to bad weather. The plane was never recovered. • • Patsy Cline was already a Grand Ole Opry star at 26 and the nation’s number one female artist at age 29. Her recording of “I Fall to Pieces” was the Song of the Year for 1962. She survived a nearly fatal head-on collision in 1961 but could only cheat death for one more year. In 1962, after a short five-and-a-half-year career, Cline was killed in a plane crash at age 30 in a swampy woodland in Tennessee. She’s number 46 on Rolling Stone’s list of “100 Greatest Singers of All Times.” • • Back in the late 1960s, Ronnie Van Zant and a couple of his high school buddies formed a Southern blues-rock band, calling it My Backyard. In a sarcastic tribute to their P.E. teacher Leonard Skinner, who was famous for rebuking long-haired students, they changed their name to Lynyrd Skynyrd. The group was at the peak of their career in the mid1970s with sell-out concerts and increasing record sales, thanks to mega-hits “Free Bird” and “Sweet Home Alabama.” In 1977, just three days after the release ...continued on next column

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Wine -- Good or Bad DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am thoroughly confused. Several months ago, I read of the benefit of wine for women. The conclusion was that it reduced a woman’s chances of heart attack and stroke by 30 percent. My husband and I have started to drink one glass of wine a day. Now comes a new report that says just one glass of wine a day increases the chances for breast cancer. Should I be concerned? -- M.T. ANSWER: Welcome to the army of nutrition confusion. What’s good one day might be life-threatening the next. I don’t rely on one report. I stick to what the majority says. If the majority changes its mind, then I change. Wine and other alcoholic drinks lower the incidence of heart disease and, apparently, strokes. That’s the current majority thinking. Moderate drinkers of alcohol -- wine in particular -- have a lower overall mortality rate than do alcohol abstainers and heavy drinkers. “Moderate” drinking is one glass of wine, one 12-ounce can of beer or 1.5 ounces of whiskey for women; it’s two for men. The role of wine (or alcohol) in promoting breast cancer is less clear. Analysis of 40 studies shows an increase in breast cancer for women downing three or more drinks a day. The same studies suggest that even one or two daily drinks might pose a slight danger. Other studies show an increase in lobular breast cancer with one drink a day, but no increase in ductal breast cancer. Ductal cancer is the most common kind of breast cancer. I am positive that equally confusing information will be forthcoming. The best advice I have read is this: If a woman truly savors drinking wine, one glass a day is relatively safe in regard to breast cancer. The benefits of heart health and prevention of stroke are not so great that they should induce anyone to change from being a nondrinker to a drinker. The booklet on breast cancer explains this illness in detail. To obtain a copy, write to: Dr. Donohue -- No. 1101W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Can. with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. *** Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. (c) 2011 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

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What types of resolutions might you consider? Here are a few suggestions: Contribute more to your retirement accounts. The new year means that you are one year closer to retirement. To help yourself build resources for the lifestyle you’ve envisioned as a retiree, try to boost your contributions to your 401(k) or other employer-sponsored retirement plan. You can do this if you get a salary increase and devote at least part of it to your 401(k). At the same time, try to “max out” on your Individual Retirement Account (IRA). For 2012, you can contribute up to $5,000 to an IRA, or $6,000 if you’re 50 or older. Reduce your debts. Look for ways to cut down or consolidate your debts. It may not be easy, but it’s worth the effort because the lower your debt load, the more money you’ll have available to invest for the future. Build an emergency fund. If you don’t already have an emergency fund containing between six and 12 months’ worth of living expenses, start building one soon. Keep the money in a liquid vehicle — one that’s separate from your everyday checking and savings accounts. Without such an emergency fund, you may be forced to dip into your long-term investments to pay for unexpected costs, such as a major car repair, a new furnace or a large medical bill. Don’t overreact to volatility. In 2011, the financial markets have been volatile, with big gains followed by big drops followed by big gains — a true roller-coaster pattern. Try not to let large, short-term price movements influence your investment decisions. Many of the factors that cause jumps or declines are not that relevant to long-term results — and as an investor, you want to focus on the long term. Concentrate on building a portfolio that’s suitable for your individual goals and risk tolerance. Be aware of different types of risk. For many investors, “investment risk” strictly means the possibility of losing principal when the value of an investment drops. Consequently, to cut back on their risk in the face of a volatile market, they may sell off stocks and load up on certificates of deposit (CDs), bonds and other so-called “safer” investments. But each investment actually carries its own type of risk. For example, if you own CDs that pay a 2 percent return, and the inflation rate is 3 percent, you will lose purchasing power over time. And if you wanted to sell your bonds before they had matured, you’d have to sell them at a discount if the market interest rate had risen above the “coupon” rate of your bond because no one would pay you full price for them. Just be ...continued on next column

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¥ It was American inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison who made the following sage observation: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ¥ If you’re planning a trip to Peru to ring in the new year, you might want to bring along some yellow underwear. In that country it’s considered lucky to wear it on the first day of the new year. ¥ Another story to add to the file on clueless criminals: In 2010, two men in Portland, Ore., went to a supermarket and started removing price tags from items and filling their backpacks with the loot. However, they didn’t even make it out of the store with their ill-gotten gains. It seems that the would-be crooks decided to do their shoplifting during a “Shop With a Cop” promotion, and there were 60 police officers already in the store -- in uniform. ¥ You may be surprised to learn that the Statue of Liberty is not located in New York. While it is on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, it’s technically within the territorial waters of Jersey City, N.J. ¥ If you’re going to be traveling to California anytime soon, you might want to keep this in mind: In that state, shooting game from a moving vehicle is illegal -- unless the animal you’re aiming for is a whale. ¥ A baseball will travel farther on a hot day than on a cold one. ¥ The oldest bakery yet uncovered was found by archaeologists digging in the Egyptian city of Giza in 2002. They say that the baking trays, bread molds and ovens there date back to 2500 B.C., right around the time the pyramids were being built. *** Thought for the Day: “Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” -- Mark Twain (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

Bride Wants to Use Dog in Wedding DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My stepdaughter Susan is getting married on the day after Christmas, in the Bahamas. A lot of her relatives, including myself, are rather miffed about the date and location. But even more outrageous are her plans for the wedding itself. She’s decided that her yellow Lab, “Briny,” will serve as the ring bearer! I’m not sure how she plans to pull this off, but I think it’s really inappropriate. How can I tell her this without upsetting her? -- Joyce L., Deerfield Beach, Fla. DEAR JOYCE: I don’t think there’s a way to say what’s on your mind without upsetting her, because you’re unhappy with the wedding plans overall. Personally, I think it sounds really fun that Briny has such an important place in the wedding. Susan does need to make sure that Briny can make the trip over to the Bahamas. The website www.bahamas.com has details on getting a pet import permit, but the most important detail is that Briny must have up-to-date shots and Susan must bring the written record of those immunizations with her. So, the most you can and should do is double-check with Susan that she has taken care of these requirements for Briny and that she’s staying in accommodations that allow pets. This close to the wedding, it’s probably best not to go into any other details. If you’ve accepted the invitation and finalized your travel plans, go to the wedding, enjoy a fruity beverage (preferably with an umbrella), and be happy. Send your question or tip to ask@pawscorner.com, or write to Paw’s Corner, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. For more pet care-related advice and information, visit www.pawscorner.com. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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