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Glen Burnie High School in 1961. In the 1960s, he served in the Army
and was a typographer at the Annapolis Gazette.

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Thomas 'Beans' Bowles; Motown Musician

Thomas "Beans" Bowles, 73, who played the saxophone and flute on several
Motown hits by such artists as Marvin Gaye and the Supremes. The tall,
bony baritone sax player left his native South Bend, Ind., for Detroit
in 1944 to attend Wayne State University. Shortly afterward, he dropped
out to play with a U.S. Navy band nationally and internationally and
later worked in a number of Detroit jazz bars, playing with Billie
Holiday and Billy Eckstine, among others.

Bowles won a management job at Motown and has been credited as "an
unsung hero of its success." It was he who suggested that Motown
Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. put all his young artists on a bus to
tour as the Motown Revue. Working with Gordy's sister, Ester Gordy
Edwards, Bowles organized the tour. And it was Bowles, the seasoned
veteran, who conducted bed checks for the underage female singers and
lectured the whole group on how to behave on the road, particularly in
the South during the volatile 1960s civil rights era.

Bowles composed the harmonica solo for Stevie Wonder's first hit -
"Fingertips Part I" and arranged his "Fingertips Part II." The
versatile musician also played the flute solos on Gaye's "Stubborn Kind
of Fellow" and "What's Goin' On," and played saxophone for the
Supremes' hit "Baby Love" and Martha and the Vandellas' "Heat Wave."

On Friday in Detroit of prostate cancer.

BOMBAY, India (AP) -

Actor K.N. Singh, the ``gentleman villain'' of Hindi cinema for more than six decades,
died Monday at his home in Bombay, India's movie capital. He was 91.

Krishan Narayan Singh, better known by his initials, died after a long illness, family
members said.

Komal Nata, editor of the Film Information trade magazine, said Singh would be remembered
as a suave villain.

``He was very popular. The first thing that comes to mind is him smoking a cigar with a
lock of gray hair falling on his forehead,'' said Nata. ``He always wore a suit, which was
unusual for villains of the '60s.''

``He never shouted,'' Nata said. ``He was very cool and almost regal in his films. He was
the stylish villain of Hindi cinema.''

Singh gave up his career as a lawyer in 1937 and brought his robust personality and
chilling voice to Bombay, where he joined India's young movie industry. India now makes
more movies than any other country.

The United News of India said Singh played dandies and bad guys in more than 200 movies
and was famous for his pipe-smoking, hat-wearing character of the ``gentleman villain.''

Cheers,

If you want an Earth that's nothing but humans or food for humans, then
your hyperlongevity program is the way to go.  When I was a kid, around
1960, the U.S. population was under 180 million, and I remember how
empty much of the eastern part of the country was.  Now we've added a
hundred million people, the little kids of 1960 have all moved out and
have long since gotten their own housing, and so the cities and their
suburbs have sprawled far and wide.  It can only get worse.

        IIRC, one of the lands visited by Lemuel Gulliver in his travels is a
country of hyperlongetivity; language changes so much that no one can
even understand anyone more than 80 years younger (or older) than
themselves.  Clever fellow, that Swift; also made a very sensible
"Modest Proposal" that should be required reading.