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Martha Stewart during her modeling days, 1960’s.

Martha modeled in her 20s, worked with legends like Richard Avedon. “When I was a model and posing all the time in bathing suits and sporty sexy things, that’s the time I should have been on a cover,” she says before adding with a laugh, “But I wasn’t $75-an-hour model then. I was only a $50- and $60-an-hour model.”

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November Rain by Guns and Roses, 1991.

The song November rain by guns n roses remains one of their most iconic songs and most profound lyrical maladies of all time. The video, directed by Andy Morahan, portrays Rose marrying his then-girlfriend Stephanie Seymour, intercut with a live performance in a theater. It is one of the most expensive music videos ever. Slash is prominently featured in some of the video’s most memorable scenes, including a sequence of helicopter shots swooping around him as he plays the first guitar solo and a later scene where he plays the third solo while standing on Rose’s piano onstage. The video for
“November Rain” uses the full version of the song as opposed to an abridged version. Since the video was shot in winter, there were no good-looking fields around, and eventually the band decided to use a church in New Mexico. As stated at the end of the video, “November Rain” is based on the short story “Without You” by Del James, available in his 1995 book The Language of Fear. The story concerns a rock star grieving over the death of his on-and-off-again girlfriend, who had committed su***de.

Music videos in the early ’90s were cut from a different galaxy. Musicians didn’t shutter at the thought of being cheesy like they seem to do today. Opulence was the name of the game and no one does over the top like Guns N’ Roses did in the visual for “November Rain.”

Full of surrealist imagery, “November Rain” was an undertaking for the band in 1991. The off-kilter and disjointed visual came with a price tag of $1.5 million. That generous budget was more than enough to get the band any and everything they wished for. No idea went unexplored, it seems.

The music video for “November Rain” came at a time when glam rock was nearing the end of its course and its grittier counterpart, grunge rock, began to take its place. Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was released just a few months earlier, setting the tone for the genre moving into a new decade.

It’s a music video that has stood the test of time and that we likely will never see the likes of again.

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“The Kiss of Life “- A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after he contacted a low voltage wire, 1967 by Rocco Morabito.

“The Kiss of Life” shows a utility worker named J.D. Thompson giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker Randall G. Champion after he went unconscious following contact with a low voltage line. They had been performing routine maintenance when Champion brushed one of the low voltage lines at the very top of the utility pole. His safety harness prevented a fall, and Thompson, who had been ascending below him, quickly reached him and performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. He was unable to perform CPR given the circumstances, but continued breathing into Champion’s lungs until he felt a slight pulse, then unbuckled his harness and descended with him on his shoulder. Thompson and another worker administered CPR on the ground, and Champion was moderately revived by the time paramedics arrived, eventually making a full recovery.

Rocco Morabito was driving on West 26th Street in July 1967 on another assignment when he saw Champion dangling from the pole. He called an ambulance and grabbed his camera. “I passed these men working and went on to my assignment”, says Morabito. “I took eight pictures at the strike. I thought I’d go back and see if I could rind another picture”. But when Morabito gets back to the linemen, “I heard screaming. I looked up and I saw this man hanging down. Oh my God. I didn’t know what to do. I took a picture right quick. J.D. Thompson was running toward the pole. I went to my car and called an ambulance. I got back to the pole and J.D. was breathing into Champion. I backed off, way off until I hit a house and I couldn’t go any farther. I took another picture. Then I heard Thompson shouting down: He’s breathing!”.
Rocco Morabito won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for “The Kiss of Life”.

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On August 8, 1982, the Red Sox were playing an afternoon game at Boston’s Fenway Park. Suddenly a screaming foul ball whizzed past the first base dugout and Red Sox left fielder Jim Rice heard the unmistakable sound of ball striking flesh. ⁣
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Looking around the corner of the dugout into the stands Rice saw 4 year old Jonathan Keane bleeding profusely from his head. Realizing in a split second that it would take several minutes for park EMT’s to get to the scene, the future Hall of Famer sprang into action. ⁣
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Rice leaped over the railing into the stands, cradled the young fan into his arms and carried the boy into the dugout where he received immediate attention from the team’s medical staff. Within just a few minutes Jonathan was rushed to the hospital where doctors credited Rice with saving the boys life.

Jim Rice played the rest of the game in a blood stained uniform, a true badge of courage.⁣

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Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album to writing prize-winning film and television scores and collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and hundreds of other recording artists, has died at 91.

Born in Chicago in 1933, Jones would cite the hymns his mother sang around the house as the first music he could remember. But he looked back sadly on his childhood, once saying “There are two kinds of people: those who have nurturing parents or caretakers, and those who don’t. Nothing’s in between.” Jones’ mother suffered from emotional problems and was eventually institutionalized, a loss that made the world seem “senseless” for Quincy. He spent much of his time in Chicago on the streets, with gangs, stealing and fighting.

Music saved him. As a boy, he learned that a Chicago neighbor owned a piano and he soon played it constantly himself. His father moved to Washington state when Quincy was 10 and his world changed at a neighborhood recreation center. Jones and some friends had broken into the kitchen and helped themselves to lemon meringue pie when Jones noticed a small room nearby with a stage. On the stage was a piano.

He was at ease with virtually every form of American music, whether setting Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon” to a punchy, swinging rhythm and wistful flute or opening his production of Charles’ soulful “In the Heat of the Night” with a l***y tenor sax solo. He worked with jazz giants (Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington), rappers (Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J), crooners (Sinatra, Tony Bennett), pop singers (Lesley Gore) and rhythm and blues stars (Chaka Khan, rapper and singer Queen Latifah).

Jones is survived by daughters Rashida, Jolie Jones Levine, Rachel Jones, Martina Jones, Kidada Jones and Kenya Kinski-Jones; son Quincy Jones III; brother Richard Jones and sisters Theresa Frank and Margie Jay.

“Life is like a dream, the Spanish poet and philosopher Federico Garcia Lorca said,” Jones wrote in his memoir. “Mine’s been in Technicolor, with full Dolby sound through THX amplification before they knew what these systems were.”

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While drinking, a Pilot bet he could land outside the bar, 2 hours later he touched down in central New York in a stolen aircraft. Years later he repeated the stunt because someone wouldn’t believe him.

1st flight:
In September 1956 after drinking heavily at a bar in New York City, Thomas Fitzpatrick made an intoxicated barroom bet that he could travel from New Jersey to New York City in 15 minutes.

At 3 a.m. he stole a single-engine plane from the Teterboro and flew without any lights or radio before landing on St. Nicholas Avenue near 191st Street in front of the bar where the bet was made.

The New York Times called it a “fine landing” and a “feat of aeronautics”. For his illegal flight, he was fined $100 after the plane’s owner refused to press charges.

2nd Flight:
In October 1958 just before 1 a.m., Fitzpatrick again stole another plane from the same airfield and landed on Amsterdam and 187th after another bar patron disbelieved his first feat.

For his second stolen flight, judge John A. Mullen sentenced him to six months in prison. When asked why did had undertaken the 2nd flight Fitzpatrick told the police. “that he had pulled off the second flight after a bar patron refused to believe he had done the first one.”

Fitzpatrick was a Marine during the Korean War and received a Purple Heart. He has three sons and was married to his wife, Helen, for 51 years working as a steamfitter. He died in 2009 at the age of 79.

Fitzpatrick has a mixed drink named after him for his feat called the “Late Night Flight.”

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Vikki Carr is one of the best-loved and most accomplished entertainers in the United States, Latin America and Europe. She is celebrating her fifth decade of a career in which she has won four Grammy Awards and has released over 60 best-selling recordings. Her concert tours of 2006-2007 sold out shows in the U.S., Mexico and South America. She has performed for the Queen of England, five United States Presidents, wartime soldiers in Vietnam and sold-out audiences around the world.

Vikki became a darling of the White House, performing regularly at State Dinners

Born Florencia Vicenta de Casillas-Martínez Cardona and proud of her Mexican heritage, Vikki Carr has always shared her birth name with her concert audiences and held a deep desire to one day record an album in Spanish.

President Ford wrote in his autobiography, A Time to Heal, that when Vikki Carr appeared at the White House, she asked the president, “What Mexican dish do you like?” His response: “you.” He goes on to write that the First Lady was not pleased: “Betty overheard the exchange, and needless to say, she wasn’t wild about it.”

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The legacy of first couple John F Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy is an indelible part of American cultural and political history. The couple were first introduced at a dinner party in Washington in 1952, when Kennedy was a democratic congressman and Bouvier was working as a photographer at the Washington Times-Herald, and were married a year later. Here’s a glimpse at the couple through the years, from their early days to the day of Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.

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Laura Welch Bush idyllic teenage life, was shattered two days after her seventeenth birthday, when she ran a stop sign and hit a car driven by her classmate Michael Douglas. The accident occurred just after 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday night, November 6, 1963.

According to friends, Laura left in the car, upset about something that had happened at home, and picked up her friend Judy D***s a few blocks away. They drove north out of town and turned east on Farm Road 868, which we called “The Loop,” the road to the good parking spots among the mesquite bushes. At the corner of Big Springs, the highway that continues north to Lubbock, Laura ran the stop sign and slammed into the right front of Michael’s southbound 1962 Corvair. A police report was filed, but no citation was issued.

Laura was being treated for minor injuries at Midland Memorial Hospital when she heard that Michael had died at the scene from a broken neck after hearing his mother cry in the curtain closed from her. She was devastated. At school, students talked of a relationship between Laura and Michael. Stories circulated that Douglas was Laura Welch’s “fiancé” or her “boyfriend,” Laura later stated that Michael was “a very close friend and they talked every night on the phone but never dated.

Michael Douglas was on the track team, but is remembered as a member of the “Rebel Brigade,” the coolest studs in the school, the boys who drove the jeep with the huge Confederate flag at football games. Douglas was a leader among the leaders, smart, handsome, and kind to everyone.

The tragic accident overwhelmed Laura. She did not return to school until after Christmas. She never knew if his parents forgave her. When she did return to complete her senior year, she never mentioned the accident, even among her friends, and no one brought it up in her presence.

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Nancy Reagan was responsible for one of the stranger episodes of White House history: The use of an astrologer to make scheduling decisions for a sitting president.

Joan Quigley discussed her relationship with Nancy Reagan in a book, titled What Does Joan Say?. Quigley wrote, “Not since the days of the Roman emperors, and never in the history of the United States presidency, has an astrologer played such a significant role in the nation’s affairs of State.”

When Donald Regan took over as chief of staff for President Reagan in 1985, he was informed by Reagan aide Michael Deaver about Quigley and her role. Regan, who frequently quarreled with Nancy Reagan, resigned in 1987 after the Iran–Contra affair. In 1988, Regan published his memoir For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington, revealing that Nancy Reagan had consulted with Quigley, and previously with astrologer Jeane Dixon. Regan wrote:

Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House Chief of Staff was cleared in advance with a woman in San Francisco [Quigley] who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in a favorable alignment for the enterprise

Nancy Reagan, who attempted to conceal her relationship with Quigley by making payments through a third party, was highly embarrassed by the revelation. She wrote in her 1989 book, My Turn, “While astrology was a factor in determining Ronnie’s schedule, it was never the only one, and no political decision was ever based on it.”

In her 1990 book, What Does Joan Say?: My Seven Years As White House Astrologer to Nancy and Ronald Reagan, she wrote, “I was responsible for timing all press conferences, most speeches, the State of the Union addresses, the takeoffs and landings of Air Force One. I picked the time of Ronald Reagan’s debate with [Jimmy] Carter and the two debates with Walter Mondale; all extended trips abroad as well as the shorter trips and one-day excursions.”

After the leak, Quigley was swarmed with media attention. Of the entire incident, Nancy Reagan said, “Nobody was hurt by it—except, possibly, me.

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Future President George W. Bush wasn’t just a cheerleader at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in the 1960s: he was head cheerleader.

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