Edward Elderman
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David Bowie, Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Yoko Ono, John Lennon and Roberta Flack - 17th Grammy Awards - 1975
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Karl Hofer(1878 – 1955)was born on this day.
"Girl w Bathing Cap", 1934.
Hofer’s work was denounced as “degenerate art” by the Nazis&exhibited in infamous 1937 exhibition"Entartete Kunst".Only after WWII he regained recognition as 1of the greatest German painters of his time.
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1969. Bobbie Brooks Fashions. Jumpers with colorful blouses.
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1948 Cadillac Series 62 Coupe in Hershey, Pennsylvania, yesterday.
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David Sinclair
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Fifteen minutes of movement a day can extend lifespan by three years. Longevity starts with a daily walk
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Infatuated w Delores Del Rio since adolescence,Welles finally met del Río at Darryl Zanuck's ranch in 1939.They married but his infidelities led to divorce. The same thing happened w Rita Hayworth.
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reflex response&skin color. She called it the Apgar Score.
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In Columbia-Presbyterian’s maternity ward,Virginia Apgar saw newborns die within mins of birth bcs doctors had no way to judge wch babies needed help 1st. So 1 morning in 1952,she grabbed a pen&paper&designed a 5-point test measuring heart rate,breathing,muscle tone,
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Don't let Trump see this
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"This has been such a crummy year. And now, Diane Keaton gone at 79."
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Teenagers at a party in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1947, snacking on donuts and drinking Coca-Cola between dances.
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'Today, if I had to do it all over again, I'd stay somewhere down in my own class, which was 170 pounds, light heavyweight. I wouldn't be fighting those big bums that weighed two pounds less than a horse.'
- Gunboat Smith
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“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.”

—Henry Miller
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You never know what you're getting at the market.
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''She's off the center,not a regular homogenized individual.She's got a funny slant on life to begin w,&it makes you want to be funny when you're around her. If you have trouble talking to her,that's your fault. We ham-and-egg it pretty good."--Jack Nicholson
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"We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk."
-Thomas Moore
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Couple walk in snow, ca 1955 © Saul Leiter
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Anna Magnani and friend