Our header shot is of wife Keke putting the last makeup touches on husband John’s presentation for NYC television in 1980. An Immigrants’ Son John Bayard Anderson was born on Feb. 15, 1922, in Rockford, Ill., a son of Swedish immigrants at 8:55PM…
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Peter J. Powers, Giuliani advocate
Deputy Mayor Peter J. Powers, left, with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1994. “I never had a brother,” Mr. Giuliani said in an interview this week. “Peter was my brother.” CreditJames Estrin/The New York Times Peter J. Powers, a high school friend whom Rudolph W. Giuliani recruited to impose order on his chaotic novice mayoral…
Shazam! Gomer Pyle is Jim Nabors
We have rectified Jim Nabors’ ascendant at to Cancer 10 that gets the epithet of Great Memory from E C Matthews. Astrologer G.K. McClung in his Hyperion symbols says that it is a degree of “ripe cherries on a tree” creating the image of great promise, typically musical, and accomplishment. His Sun and Jupiter are…
C730 Shazam! Jim Nabors is Gomer Pyle
We have rectified Jim Nabors’ ascendant at to Cancer 10 that gets the epithet of Great Memory from E C Matthews. Astrologer G.K. McClung in his Hyperion symbols says that it is a degree of “ripe cherries on a tree” creating the image of great promise, typically musical, and accomplishment. His Sun and Jupiter are…
C149, The other Vince Scully: architectural historian
Vincent Scully, the Yale art historian whose lectures inspired students for more than 60 years and whose writings on architecture had a decisive influence on its practice in the last half of the 20th century, died on Thursday night at his home in Lynchburg, Va. He was 97. Yale University announced the death, giving the cause…
#J01 Abdul Bahá, visionary of Baha’ism
Bahá’ís have some of the most beautiful gardens on their grounds outside of an arboretum, part of their belief of creating a heaven on earth. They are worldwide with their headquarters in Haifa, Israel which is our featured shot and a popular tourist area for those travelling in the area. They also have an American…
C162 I think I love you, David Cassidy
David Cassidy, the actor, singer and teen heartthrob with the green eyes and the feathered haircut was the magical success of “The Partridge Family,” the 1970s television show about a family band. The band’s songs, sung by himself and his stepmother, Shirley Jones, were all the rage in the early seventies. It had several notable…
C728 Steven Mostyn, Texas Trial Lawyer
AUSTIN, Tex. — Steve Mostyn, a Texas trial lawyer and one of the nation’s leading Democratic donors, who spent a fortune in a long effort to turn his reliably red home state blue, died on Wednesday at his home in Houston. He was 46. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences ruled the death a…
C108 Azzedine Alaia “King of Cling” fashion
Tunisian Azzedine Alaia, died on Saturday, November 18, 2017 in his adopted home of Paris where he was one of the couture fashion doyens. His company said the cause was a heart attack. He was eight-two years old. Alaia was called a sculptor of the female form, notably worn by the First Lady Michelle Obama …
2017-11-11 He’s Gone–The Lebanese Prime Minister al-Hariri is Missing
Today is the traditional celebration of Veteran’s Day, that holiday which honors military veterans; people who served in any capacity the United States Armed Forces. Originally it was called Armistice to commemorate the ending of World War I at precisely the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, but in…