Archive for March, 2015

ACTRESS BREE TURNER IS 38 TODAY

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Bree Nicole Turner was born in Santa Monica, California

Turner is a regular member of the NBC-TV series Grimm. The drama
series debuted on October 28,2011 and is filmed in Portland, Oregon.

Before fame, Turner appeared in commercials for such companies
as Gap
and Dr.Pepper (above).  

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Bree Turner as Rosalie and Silas Weir Mitchell as Monroe in Grimm.

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The cast of Grimm.

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DAVE FROHNMAYER HAS DIED AT 74

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Dave Frohnmayer (July 9, 1940 – March 9, 2015)

Frohnmayer was an attorney, politician, and university administrator
from Oregon. He was the 15th president of the University of Oregon
(
UO), serving from 1994 to 2009. His tenure as president was the
second-longest after John Wesley Johnson. He was the first native
Oregonian to run the UO. Frohnmayer previously served as Oregon
Attorney General
from 1981 to 1991, and subsequently served as
dean at the University of Oregon School of Law before serving as
president of the university. He died Monday night after battling
prostate cancer.  

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HISTORICAL NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

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Sandy Kozel

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RECORDING BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1966

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The song “God Only Knows” was voted # 25 in Rolling Stone
magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was ranked
by Pitchfork Media as the greatest song of the 1960s.The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included it as one of "500 Songs
That Shaped Rock and Roll
".

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SITCOM DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1945

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Willard Lewis Waterman (August 29, 1914 – February 2, 1995)

Those Websters was a radio situation comedy series starring
Willard Waterman (above) and Constance Crowder as George
and Jane Webster. The program was launched in New York and
then moved to Chicago for a short time before finishing its run
from Hollywood.

It was heard Friday evenings on CBS from March 9, 1945 to
February 22, 1946 with Quaker Oats as the sponsor. On March
3, 1946, the series moved to Mutual where it aired Sundays until
August 22, 1948.

Two years after this series came to an end, Waterman replaced
Harold Peary as the title character in The Great Gildersleeve in
1950 on NBC.

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