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nntmsonien srilh\oilAll SOIISonfnivritei\ meric anA former Brownsville bov who vear's■ ^studuied at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, flewhelieopters over Germany, and husband waswas assigned to teach at Vest Kristoffersan Point is now trying his hand children.. , andiv in Africa as Kristof ferson married a manager for Pan childhood friend and formerAirways. While her Brownsville girl. Frannie Beer, in Africa. Mary also the child of a Pan Am and her two pilot, Capt. K B Beer.Kris and Karen.i Kristofferson enlisted in the succeeding . . , at returned to Brownsville. Later, Arnrv and spent the first three songwriting. a third child, Kraigher, was,of his five-year Army careerKris Kristofferson, son of horn The familv was then sent fixing helicopters in Germany. Henry C (Kris) Kristofferson, to California, where Kns He volunteered for Vietnam but a former Pan \merican \ir- finished High School in San was rejected. Kristofferson was ways pilot, has been termed I Mateo. After high school, Krisjthen assigned to teach at West “the hottest thing in Nashville!enrolled in Pomona Colle-e. Point, but he resigned htsrigh. now” by New York Times where he won four prizes in commission and took up hiswriter Crasg McGregor T h e Atlantic magazine’s, sougwriting once again He Kristofferson just returned collegiate short store- contest as joined Columbia Record studio from Peru with Dennis Hopper, well as a Rhodes scholarship: w a minor job and then leftn to work in a tavern for $60 a week. His wife left him andw here he composed and sang t o Oxford University songs for Hopper’s new picture, i England. At Oxford he st “The Last Movie.” Ir addition,;writing a novel, and fter about things looked grim.Kristofferson sings three songs 200 pages, he decided it “wasn'tTony his thing” and gave it up. It“Ned was also during his stav aton the soundtrack ofRichardson's movie,Kellv,” in which the starring 0 x f o r d that KristoffersonBut Kris Kristofferson caughtthe attention of countrv Westemstar Johnm Cash who helpedi j l. ™ ^ , ., him along, and soon hristof-role is played by ex-Rolling started as a songwriter: bN the ferwT1s {aref»r began toStonesigned up for.1 agger.Kris Kridofferson, 33. was born sn Brownsville and attended West Brownsville School.His familv was transferred to Nex York while Kris was in . high school, and after a stint sinf;ng tdo. there, Kristofferson, Sr . did atime he was 22. he had beencareer beganr\ a skyrocket. Since then a ret oraing Kristofferson the songwriter hascontract and had been chosen appeared on television, he has 1\ Time Magazine as a written songs for Johnnv Cash.“teenager’s$ tguitar-thwonking Rav Stevens and Roger Miller,and landed a role in “The Last\fter graduating from Oxford, Movie.*»
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Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas, US
Sun, Aug 02, 1970
Page 3
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