182k views 60 items Embed. List of famous crooners, with photos. Crooning is a 20th century style of singing made possible by the invention of microphones and amplifiers, which allowed the crooner to sing in a much softer, quieter, more intimate style.
Even Godâs Love We Deliver had to rename its building in downtown New York the David Geffen Building after he donated $1 million for renovations. And now thereâs going to be a David Geffen Hall in New York, too. Geffen is donating $100 million to Lincoln Center, payable in eight annual installments.
In August 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson created the Kerner Commission, which was named after its chairman, Illinois governor Otto Kerner. Eight months later, in March 1968, the commission submitted a 426-page report that, interestingly, became a best seller with over 2 million copies sold.ecause the commission took for granted that the riots were the fault of white racism, it would have been awkward to have had to confront the question of why liberal Detroit blew up while Birmingham and other southern cities -- where conditions for blacks were infinitely worse -- did not.