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" Larry Fine, American piano technician and author of the known The Piano Book, wrote in 2011 that he considered Hamburg Steinways to be of a higher quality than New York Steinways.
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Larry and Fine
* Larry Fine ( of the Three Stooges ) and his family lived in hotels, due to his extravagant spending habits and his wife's dislike for housekeeping.
They started as " Ted Healy and his Southern Gentlemen " which comprised Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard.
Brothers Moe and Shemp were joined later that year by violinist-comedian Larry Fine, with Fred Sanborn also joining the group.
Besser was the only " third " Stooge that dared to hit Moe back in retaliation and get away with it ; Larry Fine was also known to hit Moe on occasion, but always with serious repercussions.
Three years later, just before Christmas of 1974, Larry Fine suffered yet another stroke at the age of 72 and four weeks later, suffered a more massive one.
Commissioners Gary White and Bettye Fine Collins voted against the tax, while Larry Langford, Sheila Smoot, and Mary Buckelew voted in favor.
The script for Punch Drunks was written by the Stooges, credited as " Jerry Howard, Larry Fine and Moe Howard ".
Peter James ( who was sometimes billed as Bobby Pinkus ) and Paul " Mousie " Garner were former members of Ted Healy's vaudeville act and had replaced Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard as Healy's " stooges " in the 1930s.
Larry Boehmer, a Master of Fine Arts student at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln at the time, promoted the bar to his fellow artists.
Bidgood is represented by ClampArt in New York City as well as Larry Collins Fine Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
He has had solo exhibitions at ClampArt, New York CIty ( 2007 ); Larry Collins Fine Art, Provincetown, Massachusetts ( 2007 ); Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, Texas ( 2006 ); Galeria Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain ( 2002 ); Galeria Maraeini, Bologna, Italy ( 2001 ).
* Much of the above information is taken from The Piano Book by Larry Fine ( 4th edition 2001 ; Jamaica Plain, MA: Brookside Press ; ISBN 1-929145-01-2 ), which contains a comprehensive survey of contemporary pianos.
The noted piano authority Larry Fine observes that the Blüthner tone is " refined " and " delicate ", particularly " at a low level of volume ".
He was also a castmember and impressionist on The Howard Stern Show during the 1990s, where he gained considerable fame with his impersonations of Three Stooges middleman Larry Fine, late Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott and Stern's head writer Jackie Martling.
Howard's brother Shemp joined the act soon after as a heckler in 1923, with Larry Fine joining in 1925.
After Larry Fine, Moe Howard and Curly Howard left his act in 1934, Healy appeared in a succession of films for 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and MGM.
In the August 2004 issue of Chess Life, for example, GM Larry Evans gave his recollection that " Fine told me he didn't want to waste three months of his life watching Russians throw games to each other.
Larry and American
* 1946 – Larry Graham, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer ( Sly and the Family Stone and Graham Central Station )
In December of that year, allegations by Arkansas state troopers Larry Patterson and Roger Perry were first reported by David Brock in the American Spectator.
In the majors, however, it was not until the signing of Robinson ( in the National League ) and Larry Doby ( in the American League ) that baseball began to remove its color bar.
Under Veeck's leadership, one of Cleveland's most significant achievements was breaking the color barrier in the American League by signing Larry Doby, formerly a player for the Negro League's Newark Eagles in, eleven weeks after Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
American Larry Adler was one of the first harmonica players to perform major works written for the instrument by the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin.
* 1947 – Larry Doby signs a contract with the Cleveland Indians baseball team, becoming the first black player in the American League.
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