| 12-27 TABLE of CONTENTS:
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Jacqueline Cochran.
The complete episode for this date...
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12-27 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 12-27-1901, Marlene Dietrich, film actor
and entertainer who symbolized sophistication and daring sensuality in
German and American films. Her studio blocked an Academy Award nomination
for her work in Witness for the Prosecution because it didn't want
the ending to be made public. She was nominated for her first American
film Morocco (1930/31). She was probably a courier in World War
II and marched beside Charles DeGaulle in the Parisian victory parade.
She was adamantly anti-Nazi and Adolph Hitler put a price on her head.
Since her death, a number of biographies have emphasized her many affairs
with both men and women.
B. 12-27-1927, Anne Armstrong, U.S. ambassador
to Great Britain (Court of St. James) under President Gerald Ford.
Won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987; co-chaired the 1980 Reagan/Bush
campaign.
B. 12-27-1934, Larisa Semyonovna Latynina,
Soviet gymnast was the first woman athlete
to win nine gold medals in the Olympic Games, which along with 5 silver
and 4 bronze medals made her the winningest athlete, male OR female in
Olympic history.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
COCHRAN, JACQUELINE:
"I
might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind
and stars."
-- Jacqueline Cochran in The Stars at Noon. Ms Cochran, a foundling,
was raised in terrible poverty in Florida. She worked at menial jobs, finally
got her beauty operator's license, built up a beauty empire, took up flying
to promote her business, and became a self-made millionaire even though
she was, because of her lack of childhood education, almost functionally
illiterate. She became the foremost pilot of her day and held more air
records than any other man OR woman.
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