TV SHOW HOSTESS VANNA WHITE IS 54 TODAY

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Vanna White has been the hostess and puzzle-board turner of televisions 
Wheel of Fortune (NBC/CBS) since 1982.

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RENE RUSSO TURNED 57 TODAY

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Rene Marie Russo is a former model turned actress. Russo made her
television series debut in 1987, with a supporting role in the ABC series
Sable.Two years later, she made her debut in film as the girlfriend of the
Tom Berenger character in Major League (1989) . Her breakthrough role
is generally considered to be her part as internal affairs detective Lorna
Cole in Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998).

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Rene Russo with Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon 3

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Rene Russo in a scene from Major League

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Rene with Clint Eastwood from the film In The Line of Fire

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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM AD FROM 1948

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TEST PILOT CHUCK YEAGER IS 88 TODAY

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Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is a retired major general in the
United States Air Force and noted test pilot. He was the first man to
break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the experimental
Bell X-1 (shown below) at Mach 1 at an altitude of 45,000 feet.

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USAF Command Pilot Wings 

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BURT REYNOLDS IS 75 TODAY

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Actor Burt Reynolds is most noted for his roles as Bo ‘Bandit’ Darville in Smokey and the
Bandit (1977)
, Lewis Medlock in Deliverance (1972), and as Paul Crew in The Longest Yard (1974. He is one of America’s most recognizable film and television personalities with more than 90 feature film and 300 television episode credits.

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Burt Reynolds in Deliverance

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Burt Reynolds in Breaking In, a 1989 picture filmed in Portland

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