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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 1:47 pm
What a beautiful voice, and what beautiful memories that song has conjured up . . .
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, May 02, 2008 - 3:15 pm
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jim Hager, one of the Hager Twins who satirized country life with cornball one-liners on TV's "Hee Haw," died in Nashville, the show's producer said Friday. He was 66. Hager was at a coffee shop when he collapsed Thursday, Sam Lovullo said. He said he had been told that by Jon Hager, the surviving twin. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he had been taken, gave no details on the cause of death. The twins, who were also guitarists and drummers, rose to national fame as original cast members of the TV show in 1969. With its mixture of music and country-flavored humor, the show was a huge hit. The fast-paced use of one-liners was inspired by the hugely successful "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" — but with a rural twist. "People laughed at themselves," Jim Hager said in a 1988 Associated Press interview. "They liked the chemistry on the show and the fast pace." "They (the jokes) were not all platinum," Jim Hager said. "The writers count on the person delivering the line to pull it off. It was cornball, no denying it." The Hagers had worked with country star Buck Owens and used his connection to join "Hee Haw" when Owens signed as the show's co-host with Roy Clark. Lovullo said he was looking for male talent to match the young, attractive women on the show. "Jim was a delightful, funny, loyal friend," said longtime "Hee Haw" cast member Lulu Roman, who also lives in Nashville. "He will be missed greatly as one of my true friends." The Hagers left the program in the mid-'80s and continued to perform shows together. "They still maintained that youthful look and carried on like young people," Lovullo said Friday. "It is a big loss and a sudden one," he said. The twins were born in the Chicago area. They said in 1988 that they had been together all their lives except for 3 1/2 years when Jon left Los Angeles and moved to Nashville. Jim remained on the West Coast, but finally followed. "He and Jon were a dynamic and extremely talented duo," Roman said. "I pray for his family."
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Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001
| Friday, May 02, 2008 - 3:45 pm

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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Monday, May 05, 2008 - 8:17 am
Mildred Loving, matriarch of interracial marriage, dies By DIONNE WALKER, Associated Press Writer RICHMOND, Va. - Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday. Peggy Fortune said Loving, 68, died Friday at her home in rural Milford. She did not disclose the cause of death. "I want (people) to remember her as being strong and brave yet humble — and believed in love," Fortune told The Associated Press. Loving and her white husband, Richard, changed history in 1967 when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld their right to marry. The ruling struck down laws banning racially mixed marriages in at least 17 states. "There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the equal protection clause," the court ruled in a unanimous decision. Her husband died in 1975. Shy and soft-spoken, Loving shunned publicity and in a rare interview with The Associated Press last June, insisted she never wanted to be a hero — just a bride. "It wasn't my doing," Loving said. "It was God's work." Mildred Jeter was 11 when she and 17-year-old Richard began courting, according to Phyl Newbeck, a Vermont author who detailed the case in the 2004 book, "Virginia Hasn't Always Been for Lovers." She became pregnant a few years later, she and Loving got married in Washington in 1958, when she was 18. Mildred told the AP she didn't realize it was illegal. "I think my husband knew," Mildred said. "I think he thought (if) we were married, they couldn't bother us." But they were arrested a few weeks after they returned to Central Point, their hometown in rural Caroline County north of Richmond. They pleaded guilty to charges of "cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth," according to their indictments. They avoided jail time by agreeing to leave Virginia — the only home they'd known — for 25 years. They moved to Washington for several years, then launched a legal challenge by writing to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who referred the case to the American Civil Liberties Union. Attorneys later said the case came at the perfect time — just as lawmakers passed the Civil Rights Act, and as across the South, blacks were defying Jim Crow's hold. "The law that threatened the Lovings with a year in jail was a vestige of a hateful, discriminatory past that could not stand in the face of the Lovings' quiet dignity," said Steven Shapiro, national legal director for the ACLU. "We loved each other and got married," she told The Washington Evening Star in 1965, when the case was pending. "We are not marrying the state. The law should allow a person to marry anyone he wants." After the Supreme Court ruled, the couple returned to Virginia, where they lived with their children, Donald, Peggy and Sidney. Each June 12, the anniversary of the ruling, Loving Day events around the country mark the advances of mixed-race couples."
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, May 05, 2008 - 8:33 am
Mildred & Richard Loving
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 1:29 pm
Co-founder of Baskin-Robbins ice cream stores dies at 90 LOS ANGELES - Irvine Robbins, who as co-founder of Baskin-Robbins brought Rocky Road, Pralines 'n Cream and other exotic ice cream concoctions to every corner of America, has died at age 90. Robbins had been ill for some time and died Monday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., said his daughter Marsha Veit. While the company advertised that it offered 31 flavors, in fact it has created more than 1,000 flavors, according to its Web site. Generations of kids trooped to Baskin-Robbins stores to buy ice cream flavors like Jamoca, Daiquiri Ice, Pink Bubblegum, Nuts to You and Here Comes the Fudge. "Frankly, I never met a flavor I didn't like," Robbins told The New York Times in 1973. Some were short-lived and created to mark specific events, such as Lunar Cheesecake for the moon landings and Valley Forge Fudge for the 1976 bicentennial. When the Beatles were to arrive in the United States in 1964, a reporter called to ask whether Baskin-Robbins was going to commemorate the event with a new flavor. Robbins didn't have a flavor planned but quickly replied, "Uh, Beatle Nut, of course." The flavor was created, manufactured and delivered in just five days, according to the Web site. Robbins opened his first ice cream store in Glendale, Calif., in December 1945, following his discharge from the Army. He used $6,000 from a cashed-in insurance policy his father had given him for his bar mitzvah. Robbins offered 21 flavors at the store. "In light of what Baskin-Robbins was to become, that first store was incredibly amateurish," according to a biography by his daughter Veit. "It was called 'Snowbird' because Robbins couldn't think of anything else. The opening was delayed for a day because the paint on the floor hadn't dried." His cousin Sybil Hartfield bought $39 of the first day's sales of $53, according to the biography. His brother-in-law, the late Burton Baskin, opened his own ice cream store in neighboring Pasadena a year later. By the end of the 1940s, they had joined forces to create Baskin-Robbins. Robbins recalled they used a flip of the coin to decide which name came first. They also decided to sell their stores to managers, pioneering the franchise concept for ice cream stores. As corporate policy, employees were allowed to eat all the ice cream they wanted, because, Robbins said, "I don't want my employees stealing." Robbins was dedicated to upholding the quality of his ice cream regardless of the cost, his daughter said. "Everybody has a proprietary interest in ice cream," Robbins told the Times for the 1973 story. "All you have to do is mention ice cream and everybody has a flavor." Baskin-Robbins was sold to United Fruit Co. in 1967, but Robbins continued to work for the company until retiring in the 1970s. Today, Baskin-Robbins is part of Dunkin' Brands Inc. and has more than 5,800 franchises worldwide. In addition to his daughter, survivors include his wife, Irma; another daughter, Erin Robbins; a son, John Robbins; and sisters Shirley Familian and Elka Weiner. His son is a noted author ("Diet for a New America") and advocate of vegetarianism and natural foods.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 1:38 pm
My fave ice cream flavour is burgundy cherry, followed by pralines and cream.

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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 2:09 pm
Mine was Apple Brown Betty.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 2:55 pm
Love the cheesecake.
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Merrysea
Moderator
08-13-2004
| Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 3:02 pm
Nutty Coconut is the best!
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 10:38 pm
Just had some Gold Medal Ribbon tonight! But my long term favorite has usually been Quarterback Crunch.

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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 8:31 am
Country music legend Eddie Arnold dead at 89 By Pat Harris NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Eddy Arnold, country music's "Tennessee Plow boy" whose rendition of "Make the World Go Away" was an international hit in the 1960s, died on Thursday at age 89 in Nashville after a lengthy illness. His death was announced by his biographer, Don Cusi. Rising from a poverty-stricken childhood in Henderson, Tennessee, Arnold connected with the Pee Wee King Band as a singer and went on to a career in which he was named to the Country Music Hall of Fame and received the County Music Association's first entertainer of the year award. He won many other awards as he moved from pure country into pop-oriented arrangements that attracted a wider audience. In addition to "Make the World Go Away" he scored 16 other consecutive hits in the 1960s. His concerts sold out in New York's Carnegie Hall and he performed in Hollywood's Coconut Grove and top clubs in Las Vegas. Before his retirement from active singing, he released a new RCA album, "After All These Years," in 2005. Arnold starred on the Grand Ole Opry in 1943, signed with RCA the following year but did not have a hit until 1946 with "That's How Much I Love You." Coming under the management of Col. Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, Arnold quickly scored a string of hits and graduated from radio to television. Many in the country music industry disapproved of his merging country and pop, but with his smooth baritone he quickly gained the reputation of being country's version of Bing Crosby. He sold more than 85 million records and had 147 songs hit the charts. Among others, his hit singles include "Cattle Call," "Just Call Me Lonesome," "After Loving You," "I Want to Go With You" and "Tennessee Stud." Arnold's wife, Sally, died earlier this year.
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Mameblanche
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08-24-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 8:40 am

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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 8:42 am
Eddy Arnold sings Make the World Go Away - (he's introduced by Minnie Pearl) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTKeo4w7npA
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Mameblanche
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08-24-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 9:00 am
A young Eddie Arnold singing What's He Doing In My World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTQDhgECSXU&NR=1
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 9:22 am
My mom and dad loved Eddy Arnold. I remember them dancing around the house to one of his records.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 9:49 am
My parents loved him, too. I know they had at least one album of his that they listened to often.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 1:30 pm
EDDY ARNOLD The man had a beautiful voice.
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Frootjuuce
Member
02-25-2007
| Monday, May 12, 2008 - 12:01 am
My friend who lives in Missouri just called and told me that Dottie Rambo died in an accident in her tour bus early this morning. She said that they announced it at her church tonight. I listened to her all the time when I was in Bible college - she was very southern gospel.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Monday, May 12, 2008 - 8:36 am
Sendler, savior of Warsaw Ghetto children, dies WARSAW (Reuters) - Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, died in the Polish capital on Monday after a long illness, local media said. She was 98. <snip> Using her position as a social worker, Sendler regularly entered the ghetto, smuggling around 2,500 children out in boxes, suitcases or hidden in trolleys. The children were then placed with Polish families outside the ghetto, created by Nazi Germany in 1940 for the city's half a million strong Jewish population, and given new identities. But in 1943 Sendler, who led the children' section of the Zegota organization which helped Jews during the war, was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo. She only escaped execution when Zegota managed to bribe some Nazi officials, who left her unconscious but alive with broken legs and arms in the woods. <snip> (Read more at the link above)
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Mameblanche
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08-24-2002
| Monday, May 12, 2008 - 8:45 am
(((Irena Sendler)))
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Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001
| Monday, May 12, 2008 - 8:47 am

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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, May 12, 2008 - 8:48 am
IRENA SENDLER Age 97 in this photo.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, May 12, 2008 - 8:53 am
Click here to hear Dottie Rambo Singing
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, May 12, 2008 - 9:40 am
Thank you for posting that, Babyruth. I read that this morning and was going to post it but was about a minute from running out the door to drop Kota off at school. What an amazing, couragous woman she was.
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