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It’s 1513 and prisoners in
England are no longer allowed the benefit of the clergy. In 1648 the 30-year war ends with
the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia. The earl of Bobbin is ridiculed when Mrs. B.
accuses him of having "a low sex drive."
On this day in 1901 Anna Edson Tylor is the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a
barrel and live to tell about it. The barrel in question is four and a half feet high,
three feet in diameter and is stuffed with cushions (and Ms. Taylor). After she makes it
the lady admits to her fans that she can’t swim but needed the money to repay a loan.
In 1958 Raymond Chandler starts work on "Poodle Springs", his last, unfinished
work. 1962: Bye-Bye vacations in Havana. The United States begins its Blockade of Cuba.
1969: Richard Burton buys Elizabeth Taylor a 69-carrot diamond ring at Cartier’s. Ah,
those were the days.
History will record this as a not very nice day for classical music. Alessandro Scarlatti
went for baroque in 1725, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky became a sleeping beauty in 1893 and
Mrs. Franz Lehar was a Merry Widow in 1948.
Finally, A year from now I’ll be able to record the first wedding anniversary of one
of my favorite people on or off the net. Eric Yeager is taking his beautiful bride Brenda
down the aisle today. If you’d like to see just how pretty she is and what a handsome
couple they make, give a click right here: Eric's WeddingCongratulation & love to both of you from Ken, Wade, Waldo &
all the gang at ASPTL.
- RM 10/20/98 |
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The Big Bopper (J. P. Richardson) o
Priscilla Blackie o Merian C. Cooper o Claudine Engbeck o Moss Hart o Kevin Kline o Denise Levertrov o Mainbocher o David Nelson o Dame Sybil Thorndike o Y. A. Tittle o
Rafael Trujillo o Antony van Leeuwenhoek o Phil Watson (hockey)
o Bill Wyman |
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FOR
ERIC & BRENDA Be good to each other.
Love and trust each other. Be friends. Everything else in a life together will take care
of itself. Taking someone into your heart is easy, sharing your life with one person a bit
harder.
Marriage is a compromise of individual personalities that
finally merge as one. It’s an exciting, often frustrating, beautiful, demanding,
wonderful, wonderful journey. The disappointments will be many but there will be joys that
will make you forget the hardships.
Is it all worth it? You bet. No one ought to be alone in
life. Solo is always more difficult than true partnership. I envy the lessons you will
learn together and I join in your happiness today. Again, always be friends. Friendship
will see you through everything. |
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GIFTS FROM THE SEA / Three |
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You see how easily we fit
together,
as if God’s own hand had cradled only us
and this beach town’s population were but two
and this wide bed but a child’s cradle
with room enough left over for presents.
Tomorrow I’ll buy you presents.
Pomegranates and breadsticks,
tickets round the room and back
and red, red roses like everybody buys everybody.
Everybody’s got a diamond ring
And Sunday shoes.
Neckties and petticoats,
pistols and tennis balls.
What pleases you?
I’d hock my watch to buy you Greece
or sell my car to bring you rickshaws from Rangoon.
All they had down at the corner
were poppies with some
lemon leaves.
They’ll have to do
till I can bring home Union
Square.
I found a twenty-dollar bill when I was ten.
I bought a cardboard circus and a fountain pen
and a jackknife because I never had one before.
My mother thought I’d stolen the money.
I bought her perfume from the dime store,
She believed me then.
I was rich in those days,
for a week I had everything.
I wish I’d known you then. -
from the album "The Sea" & "Listen To The Warm." |
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