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SINGER PAT BOONE IS 81 TODAY

 

 

Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone was born in Jacksonville, Florida.

Singer, actor, and writer Pat Boone was a successful pop singer during
the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold over 45 million albums, had 38 Top
40 hits and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood movies.

According to Billboard, Boone was the second biggest charting artist of
the late 1950s, behind only Elvis Presley. He attended three colleges
before graduating.



"Moody River" is a number-one Billboard Hot 100 song from June
of 1961.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST NEWS STORIES

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Camille Bohannon


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Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson) (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)

       

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FAMOUS AUTHOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1904

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Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts
(March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991)

Author and cartoonist Theodor Geisel wrote forty-six immortal children’s books
under the pen name of Dr. Seuss. His most notable works include The Cat in
the Hat
(1957), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957), and Green Eggs and
Ham (1960).

In his early adulthood, he attended Dartmouth college, where he became the
editor-in-chief of the school’s humor magazine, the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern.

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AUTHOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1850

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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894)

Scottish born author Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the classic adventure
novel Treasure Island, and the psychological thriller The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde. His other popular and widely translated works include
A Child’s Garden of Verses and Kidnapped.

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PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1965

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A Spaniard in the Works is a book from 1965 by John Lennon. The
book consists of collections of Lennon’s humorous quips in prose or
poem form, accompanied by goofy cartoons, similar to the style of his 
previous book, 1964’s In His Own Write. The name is a pun on the 
expression "a spanner in the works".

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John Lennon is shown reading his own book

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