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Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews the new Helen Merrill release,"Brownie," a tribute to Clifford Browne, on the Verve label.

2: Editor JUSTIN KAPLAN. He edited the new edition of Bartlett's book of quotations. Formerly in the publishing business, KAPLAN has written biographies of Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain, two of the most often quoted men in American history. His biography, "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain" won a Pulitzer Prize in 1967. Bartlett's last edition was published in 1980. (Little, Brown and Co.) REBROADCAST. Originally aired 11/11/92.

A recent study by the Pew Research Center finds that there are stark racial divisions in reactions to the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

Three top Air Force officials have been relieved of command in connection with the plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 other people in Croatia. The Air Force says the brigadier general and two colonels responsible for the 86th Airlift Wing have lost the confidence of their commander, because of facts revealed in the probe of the plane crash. The statement does not assign any blame for the crash. The investigation continues. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports on today's developments.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "Fragments" the new memoir by Binjamin Wilkormirski about being a child of the Holocaust. (translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway, published by Schocken

While working at a blueprint shop in Charleston, South Carolina, a customer brought in some Confederate money to order a blowup. The imagery shocked Jones. The money showed slaves. Jones began to collect the brown and gray money with slaves picking cotton, corn and tobacco and loading barrels cheerfully. He then created large scale full color paintings based on the images. The art is now on display at America's Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Film director John Madden's new film, Proof, is based on the stage play of the same name by David Auburn. It stars Anthony Hopkins and Gwyneth Paltrow. Madden's previous films include Shakespeare in Love (which won seven Academy Awards) and Mrs. Brown.

As Isabel moves into Ontario, Canada, authorities along the Eastern seaboard begin to assess damage left in the former hurricane's wake. At least 17 deaths are attributed to the storm, and more than 4 million people in the Mid-Atlantic region remain without power. Flooding remains a major concern. Her NPR's Brian Naylor, NPR's Adam Hochberg and FEMA administrator Michael Brown.

In this segement Robert Siegel talks to Michael Stanislawski - a professor at Columbia University and associate director for the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies. He thinks the notion that the head of the Jewish Studies department at Queens college must be Jewish is thoroughly wrong. He sites Brown University as having had a non-Jew who led the Jewish studies program there very successfully.

Deborah talks with David Snowdon, the principal investigator in a study which was carried out by the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky. The study found a correlation between strokes and Alzheimer's Disease. It examined individuals who had experienced small strokes, and found that the brain tissue in these people bears a striking similarity to the appearance of brain matter in individuals suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. The researchers are now investigating whether small strokes are the actual cause of the mental devastation believed to be caused by Alzheimer's.