COMILLE BOHANNON

Martin Charles Scorsese is74 today.

Scorsese couldn’t play sports as a kid because of his asthma. He
was named to Time magazine’s 2007 list of the 100 Most Influential
People in the World.

In 2006, Martin Scorsese won his first Academy Award for Best
Director for his film The Departed after previously being nominated
five times.

NEW YORK (AP) –  A 1891 painting from Claude Monet’s acclaimed "Grainstack"
series fetched $81.4 million at Christie’s New York auction of impressionist and
modern art.

Wednesday evening’s sale set a new auction record for the artist. The previous 
auction record for a Monet was $80.4 million set in 2008.

Oscar-Claude Monet   
(November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926)

Clifford Burton Barrows  (April 6, 1923 – November 15, 2016)

Cliff Barrows, who provided the soundtrack for Billy Graham’s global crusades
for decades and remained a close friend to the Charlotte-born evangelist,
died Tuesday at Carolinas HealthCare System-Pineville after a brief illness.

Barrows, who lived in Marvin in Union County, had traveled the world with
Graham since the earliest crusades in 1947, in Charlotte and across the
country. The two men met in Asheville in 1945 and soon formed a team
that became the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He served in
multiple roles, as song leader, choir director and emcee for the Billy
Graham Crusades.

CAMILLE BOHANNON