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Article on film The People vs Larry Flynt focuses on pornography as theme of movie and First Amendment law; holds film is reverent about notion of free speech without doing justice to the First Amendment; photos (L)
Market Watch column by Floyd Norris on 1996's best books for investors: The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History by David Hackett Fischer, The Trouble With Prosperity: The Loss of Fear, the Rise of Speculation and the Risk to American Savings by James Grant and Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L Bernstein (L)
Dave Anderson's Sports of The Times column on Dan Reeves's final season as head coach of New York Giants; says Reeves will be fired or quit on Dec 23; photo (L)
Whether a simple pillow-and-mattress sanctuary from everyday stress or a lavish shrine to slumber, no necessity is more basic than a bed. And The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund recognizes that. When household possessions are destroyed in a fire or when a family simply counts more heads than it has pillows to lay them on, donations from the Neediest Cases Fund, now in its 85th annual appeal, can fill the void. Articles, page 41.
MAKING IT WORK 3 In a subway power station, energy equals electricity minus time. NEW YORKERS & CO. 4 Melanie Bliden's days on ice and nights on bass guitar. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD 11 A photography show that is a block party in Little Italy; classic Chaplin at Lincoln Center; toys through the years at the Museum of the City of New York. MOVIE CLOCK 13 What's showing at the local movie houses, today through Thursday. GOOD EATING 14 Dining in the West 70's; luncheonette-style fare at Janine's; Mexican fast food at Harry's Burrito Junction; organic delights at Josie's. SOAPBOX 15 The Christmas spirit visits 42d Street; the predicament of a first-time Santa.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 18, 1996, covering December 22, 1996.
No Doubt
Celine Dion
Bush
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1996Jack Hamm, American cartoonist and television host (born 1916)[†]
Jack Beaumont Hamm was an American artist from Wichita, Kansas who is recognized both for his Christian-themed artwork and editorial cartoons, and for his books on drawing technique. He both studied and taught at the Frederic Mizen Academy of Art. As a cartoonist and comic strip letterer, he worked on the Bugs Bunny, Alley Oop, and Boots and Her Buddies comic strips before attending Baylor University to study theology. He taught at Baylor both before and after he graduated in 1948.
1996Airborne Express Flight 827 crashes in Narrows, Virginia, killing all six people on board.[†]
Airborne Express Flight 827 was a functional evaluation flight (FEF) of an ABX Air Douglas DC-8-63F that had undergone a major modification. On December 22, 1996, during the test flight, the aircraft stalled and crashed, killing all six people on board. Accident investigators determined the cause of the accident was improper crew control inputs.
In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[†]