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BC’sGeneralHospital
premieredMay1,1963,
whichmakesitthelongest
running daytime drama on the air.
Do you have a healthy general
knowledge of this fan favorite?
1
Name the fictional city where
General Hospital is based.
2
Stuart Damon portrayed
this patriarch for more than
30 years.
3
An estimated 30 million
viewers tuned in for this
much anticipated event in 1981
(pictured above).
4
Name the violet-eyed
superstar—and show super
fan—who guest-starred as Helena
Cassadine.
5
Who is the “Jessie’s Girl”
rocker who rocked stints
as Dr. Noah Drake (and Eli Love)
from 1981 to 2013?
6
He won eight lead-actor
Daytime Emmys playing
Luke Spencer, the most of any
soap-opera performer.
7
A flight attendant and a
registered nurse, she showed
up in 1964 to visit her sister—and
never left.
BY DEBRA STEILEN
JOAN BAEZ in Washington, D.C., in and Bob Dylan perform together at a civil rights march 1963. How’d you do? Answers on page 56.
O
n April 16, 1962,at
Gerde’s Folk CityinNew
York’s GreenwichVillage,
young Bob Dylan announcedfrom
the stage, “This here ain’tno
protest song or anythinglikethat,
’cause I don’t write no protest
songs.” He then proceededto
sing “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
Contrary to Dylan’s
pronouncement, his
was the ultimate
protest song,
posing a series of
fierce rhetorical
questions about
peace, war, social
responsibility and racial
prejudice, with an ongoing
refrain abstractly promising that
“the answer, my friend, is blowin’
in the wind.”
“I wrote ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ in
10 minutes, just put words to an
old spiritual, probably something
I learned from Carter Family
records,” Dylan said of his
legendary civil rights anthem.
RANDAL C. HILL writes about music from his home in Bandon, OR.
“That’sthefolktradition.
Youusewhat’sbeen
handeddown.”
Helateridentifiedtheold
spiritualasa19th-century
antislaverytunecalled“NoMore
AuctionBlock,”asonghe
sometimesperformedaroundthe
Villageduringhisscuffling
dayswhenhewasjust
anotherstruggling
folkieintheWoody
Guthriemold.
BornRobertAllen
Zimmermanin
Minnesotain1941,
hetriedonother
namesbeforeBobDylan
became the one that stuck.
“Blowin’ in the Wind” eventually
became a track on his 1963
Columbia Records album
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.
His liner notes included the pithy
comment: “Some of the biggest
criminals are those that turn their
heads away when they see wrong
and they know it’s wrong.”
THE ANSWER ISSTILLOUTTHERE
Trivial
Pursuits
IN SICKNESS AND
IN SOAP
Peter, Paul
and Mary’s hit
1963 version of
the song became
Warner Brothers
Records’ fastest-
selling single
ever.
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