Archive for February, 2011

FIRST TELEPHONE DIRECTORY ISSUED ON THIS DATE IN 1878

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This is one of two known copies of the first telephone directory, consisting of a single
page, issued by the New Haven District Telephone Company in Connecticut. It covered   
50 subscribers.

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A BIRTHDAY FOR TYNE DALY ~ 65 TODAY

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Actress Tyne Daly is most widely known for her work as Detective Lacey in 
the CBS television series Cagney & Lacey (1982 – 1988). She has won six 
Emmy Awards for her television work.

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Tyne Daly, left, with Sharon Gless in Cagney & Lacy

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Daly was in Clint Eastwood’s 1976 film The Enforcer

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FLEX-STRAW’S FROM THE 1950s

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AT THE TOP OF THE HIT LIST ON THIS DATE IN 1965

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SINGER NANCY WILSON IS 74 TODAY

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Nancy Wilson is a song stylist with more than 70 albums, and three Grammy Awards. She has been labeled a singer of blues,jazz, Cabaret, and pop. Nancy has received
many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and
"The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice.

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