"LADY DAY" FINDS PEACE - Benigno's Corazon takes heart
1959 Billie Holiday, considered by many aficionados to be one of the greatest jazz singers of all time ,died at Metropolitan Hospital, New York, today. She was 44.Born in Baltimore of unmarried teenage parent's "Lady Day" ,as she would become known ,started her singing career in Harlem clubs aged 15 after several years as a prostitute.
By the mid-30s she was an established artist, performing with the cream of musicians from the big bands. She formed a unique partnership with tenor saxophonist Lester Young, whom she nicknamed "the President" By the 1950s her health and vocal performance were beginning to show sign of the alcohol and narcotics to which she had become accustomed.
She was admitted to hospital shortly after performance at the Phoenix Theatre in Manhattan. Holiday died as she had lived -the victim of a catalogue of personal disaster's including rape ,racism, imprisonment and unhappy her death bed ,New York police served a warrant for her arrest -because narcotic addiction is an offence under US law.
Benigno's Corazon takes heart
1981 A massive demonstration was held in Manila today mark the first anniversary of the murder of Benigno Aquino, the leader of the anti-Marcos faction in the Philippines. Aquino was gunned down as he stepped on to the tarmac at Manila airport after returning from a three - year sojourn in the United states.
The chant od "enough is enough" directed at the regime of Ferdinand Marcos is getting louder. The people of the Philippines are looking to Aquino's widow, Corazon "Cory" for a new champion who will challenge Marcos for the presidency he has held by force since 1972.
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