Hollywood legend once claimed that, 100 years ago this month in July 1920, a baby named Taidje Khan was born on the far-eastern Russian island of Sakhalin. A child of …
Born 1920
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His classics included “Farenheit 451” and “The Martian Chronicles.”
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When Peggy Lee was discovered by Benny Goodman in 1941, it was the beginning of a beautiful – and six-decade-long – career.
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Rocky and Bullwinkle creator Alex Anderson died Oct. 22, 2010 at age 90. We take a look back at his career and the lovable moose and flying squirrel he’s remembered …
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His books often focused on crime in the horse-racing world.
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News Obituaries
Laraine Day (1920–2007), star of Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent
by Legacy StaffShe was one of U.S. television’s first female talk show hosts in “The Laraine Day Show.”
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She went to prison as a tax cheat.
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She won Academy Awards as supporting actress in “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “A Patch of Blue.”
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He responded to the command “Beam me up, Scotty.”
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He became the first Slavic pope and the youngest pope in 132 years.