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Creator of Porsche 911 sports car dies aged 76
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the
creator of Porsche’s
911 sports car, has died at
age 76, Porsche said on Thursday. A grandson of Ferdinand
Porsche, who founded the Stuttgart-based sports car maker and
developed the Volkswagen Beetle under a contract
with the Nazis in the 1930s, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
invented the 911 model in 1963.
Guitar amplifier pioneer Jim Marshall dies aged 88
LONDON (Reuters) – Jim Marshall, dubbed the ”Lord of Loud”
for his pioneering work on guitar amplifiers used by some of
the greatest names in rock music, has died aged 88. A
spokeswoman for the company he founded said he passed away in
Milton Keynes, southeast England, on Thursday morning. She
could not confirm reports that he had been suffering from
cancer and had a series of strokes.
Kanye West raps of love for Kim Kardashian
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Kanye West professed his love for
reality TV star Kim Kardashian in a new song leaked online on
Thursday, and the pair were spotted out on the town in New York
together. In ”Theraflu,” named after the over-the-counter cough
medicine, West raps about falling in love with the ”Keeping Up
With The Kardashians” star at the same time she fell in love
with Kris Humphries, who she divorced last November after 72
days of marriage.
Oprah’s next mission: Win advertisers with OWN vision
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Oprah Winfrey appears in New York
on Thursday before her most important audience: potential
advertisers who will decide how many more seasons her
struggling cable network has to promote her mantra to ”live
your best life.” The ”queen of talk,” having admitted in a CBS
interview this week to ”101 mistakes” in launching the Oprah
Winfrey Network last year, must convince the media buyers who
will crowd Lincoln Center that her formula of uplifting
programs will attract more viewers than it did in its first
year.
