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...Brooklyn Chess and Checkers Club, befriended the eight-year-old Fischer at a chess exhibition. He taught the boy for three years, but Fischer found a new tutor when his skills surpassed Nigro's. Fischer dedicated his first book to Nigro. DIED. TROY DONAHUE, 65, teenage idol in the 1950s and '60s who rose to fame after playing Sandra Dee's boyfriend in the 1959 film A Summer Place; in Santa Monica, California. Donahue was admired more for his beachboy good looks than his acting abilities, and his career fizzled. He battled alcohol and drug addiction until he sobered...
...spices she brought to Solomon. By then, the site had long since been abandoned. The temple itself had ceased to be used sometime in the 6th century A.D., and the expanding desert had covered much of the complex. Sheba searchers returned to the region sporadically, most recently in the 1950s, when American oilman and explorer Wendell Phillips led an expedition that was driven out by political upheavals in Yemen...
...think of Brazil without feeling certain rhythms. In the early 20th century, the country gave the world warmhearted samba and such performers as Carmen Miranda and Ary Barroso; in the 1950s and '60s it was soft-swaying bossa nova and Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim, Joao and Astrud Gilberto. Then, in the late 1960s and '70s, the Tropicalia movement marched in, armed with rock guitars and rebel lyrics and led by Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa...
...WAVE Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim combines jazz, classical music and samba rhythms to help launch the bossa-nova craze of the 1950s...
...spices she brought to Solomon. By then, the site had long since been abandoned. The temple itself had ceased to be used sometime in the 6th century A.D., and the expanding desert had covered much of the complex. Sheba searchers returned to the region sporadically, most recently in the 1950s, when American oilman and explorer Wendell Phillips led an expedition that was driven out by political upheavals in Yemen...