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Rachel Patron: Final farewell for a soldier who lived life
My husband Irving Patron died on Memorial Day. The timeline was fitting. At the start of 1944, Irving "Pat" Patronsky of Garden Street in Hartford, Conn. went off to war. And so did most of the boys from Weaver High School class of 1939. He was...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, The Weather Channel (tv network), Human Interest, Avon (Hartford, Connecticut), Science and Technology
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Three Retrievers named All-America East
Three UMBC women’s players were named to the All-America East conference teams, including defender Jamie Fahey, who was honored for the third straight year. Fahey (Loch Raven) and midfielder Kirsten Bilney (Mount Hebron) made the first team...
Tags: Ellicott City, Colleges and Universities, Boston, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Education
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Josephine 'Joedy' M. Hall, 88
Josephine "Joedy" M. Hall, 88, of Harbor Springs died April 27, 2013, at her residence at Perry Farm Village. Funeral services for Joedy will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 2, at the First Presbyterian Church in Harbor Springs. Larry Funk will officiate...
Tags: Lake Forest, St. Louis, American Red Cross
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Stock markets' pause button looks like the best call
You know how necessity is the mother of invention? Well, superstorm Sandy was a mother all right. The waterlogged island of Manhattan — a nerve center for the nation — was effectively quarantined, its bridges and tunnels closed. In Midtown,...
Tags: NYSE Euronext, Inc., Manhattan (New York City), Science and Technology, Stock Market, Morningstar Incorporated
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Pedro E. Guerrero dies at 95; fine arts photographer
Pedro E. Guerrero, a photographer whose early work with architect Frank Lloyd Wright sparked a long, distinguished career in the worlds of fine art and glossy magazines, died Thursday. He was 95. Guerrero died at his home in Florence, Ariz., said his...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Alexander Calder, Frank Lloyd Wright, Architecture, Photography
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Want to drive a tank for fun? Minnesota business Drive-a-Tank gives you the chance
KASOTA, Minn. (AP) — For anyone who ever has been stuck in traffic, it’s a tempting fantasy: If only you were driving a tank and could roll over everything in your path. Some drivers are now flocking to an out-of-the-way spot in southern...
Tags: Firearms, Forests, Natural Resources, Matthew McConaughey, Heavy Engineering
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Susan Tyrrell dies at 67; actress an Oscar nominee for 'Fat City'
Susan Tyrrell, an eccentric, husky-voiced character actress best known for her Oscar-nominated supporting role as a blowsy barfly in director John Huston's 1972 movie "Fat City," has died. She was 67.
Tyrrell died Saturday at her home in Austin, Texas,...Tags: The New York Times, Bette Davis, Jeff Bridges, Entertainment Events, Andy Warhol
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Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interviewer, dies
NEW YORK — Mike Wallace didn't interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them. His reputation was so fearsome that it was often said that the scariest words in the English language were "Mike Wallace...
Tags: The New York Times, Suicide, Behavioral Conditions, Vietnam, Malcolm X
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Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interrogator, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — "Mike Wallace is here to see you." The"60 Minutes"newsman had such a fearsome reputation that it was often said that those were the most dreaded words in the English language, capable of reducing an interview subject to a shaking,...
Tags: The New York Times, Vladimir Putin, Martin Short, Behavioral Conditions, Vietnam
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Mike Wallace dies at 93; '60 Minutes' pioneer
As the self-described "black hat" of television's premier newsmagazine "60 Minutes," Mike Wallace crafted a persona of a probing reporter known for his often caustic questioning of sometimes reluctant guests on the program.
Beginning in 1968, as one of...Tags: U.S. Secret Service, Nation of Islam, Schizophrenia, Politics, Iran
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Marist College Students Mourn Victims of Deadly Weekend Fire
PIX11.com / @kerrydrewStudents at Marist College in Poughkeepsie are in mourning after a tragic fire killed two students and a friend over the weekend. Cell phone video captured the intense flames shooting through the three story home on Fairview Avenue where six students...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Human Interest, Condos and Houses, Disasters and Accidents, Long Island
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From Sun Magazine: Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff home
When Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff first saw the old stone farmhouse in northern Baltimore County, it had holes in the walls and raccoons in the basement.
But it stood in the middle of 85 acres of farmland, with cows grazing in the distance and...Tags: Baltimore Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum, Lifestyle and Leisure, Baltimore County, Arts and Culture
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