Archive for July, 2012

IT’S BIRTHDAY 65 FOR ARLO GUTHRIE

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Folk singer Arlo Davy Guthrie was born in New York and is the son of
folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie. is known for singing songs
of protest
against social injustice.

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Woody Guthrie

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PORTLAND POSTCARD ~ WILLAMETTE RIVER

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Postmark: Aug. 21, 1907

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ED AMES IS 85 TODAY

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Singer/actor Ed Ames (born Edmund Dantes Urick) is best known for his pop 
and contemporary hits of the 1960s like "My Cup Runneth Over". He was also 
part of a popular 1950s singing group called The Ames Brothers.

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The Ames Brothers in 1955


Charted at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1967, and
was #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart

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BELL TELEPHONE FORMED ON THIS DAY IN 1877

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The Bell Telephone Company was founded by Alexander Graham Bell along
with his father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Under Hubbard’s guidance,
the company developed the first telephones with the assistance of Thomas
Watson and by the end of 1877 was responsible for over 3,000 phones in
service under the Bell Telephone Company name. The firm grew quickly,
boasting over 10,000 phones in service by the end of 1878.

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Gardiner G. Hubbard, president and trustee
of the Bell Telephone Company

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ERNEST BORGNINE, DEAD AT 95

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     Ernest Borgnine (
Ermes Effron Borgnino) (January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012)

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery,
often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type
as a lovesick butcher in "Marty" in 1955, died Sunday. He was 95.

His longtime spokesman, Harry Flynn, told The Associated Press that Borgnine
died of renal failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his wife and children at
his side.

Borgnine, who endeared himself to a generation of Baby Boomers with the 1960s
TV comedy "McHale’s Navy," first attracted notice in the early 1950s in villain roles, notably as the vicious Fatso Judson, who beat Frank Sinatra to death in "From Here
to Eternity."

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