Known for “The Magician of Vienna” and “Mephisto’s Waltz”…
Born March 18
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Lillian Vernon, the businesswoman who founded the mail-order catalog company that bears her name, has died. She was 88. Vernon, whose corporation was the first company founded by a woman …
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Wilson Pickett, born on this day in 1941, helped shape the sound of R&B with his energetic hits.
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She was Oscar nominated for her supporting role in “Fat City.”
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He was an outspoken leader in the fight for racial equality.
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He was prolific, even compulsive, releasing more than 50 books in a career that started in the 1950s.
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He parlayed $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library into the world’s largest winemaking empire.
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He was the self-deprecating author of “Paper Lion.”
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