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Ware described Roosevelt as "so ahead of her time...we are only now catching up" adding. "If we had been gathered here for Eleanor Roosevelt's 50th birthday rather than her 100th, it would have been her debating George Bush...
...originally intended as a gift for his wife's 50th birthday, but John Lennon never got to begin work on a collection of Yoko Ono songs recorded by other artists. The idea, however, lived on, and with a little help from her friends, Ono, 51, finally finished the album. Every Man Has a Woman features twelve songs performed by such divergent talents as Harry Nilsson, Elvis Costello, Eddie Money, Rosanne Cash, Roberta Flack and a young lad more or less new to the business, Sean Ono Lennon, 8, who sings It's Alright. Next Tuesday the musicians will...
...Xing Han, deputy director of the military museum in Peking, Salisbury made some concessions to age, skipping a few miles here and there and using mostly Jeeps or minibuses. The author, now at home, expects to complete a book, The Long March: The Untold Story, in time for the 50th anniversary of the historic event in the fall of next year. Says Salisbury: "It was the most remarkable journey I've had in 50 years of reporting, but the green hills of Connecticut look awfully good...
...50th birthday, Shirley MacLaine was in New York City, and she attended festivities all day long. Her publisher, Bantam Books, celebrated the climb of Out on a Limb to the top spot on the New York Times paperback-bestsellers list. At the 1,992-seat Gershwin Theater, where Shirley MacLaine on Broadway is grossing $475,000 a week, a house record, another bash was thrown by the show's producers. They had heard the star telling an interviewer that the only thing she had never done was to ride an elephant. So when MacLaine arrived at the theater...
...times endearingly naive; her theme is that of the wide-eyed innocent discovering the wonders of the world. She never sounds jaded. Perhaps the most striking quality in her books is their appearance of utter frankness, about her lovers, her family and herself. On Shirley's 50th birthday, her mother developed a clot on her lung; Shirley went down to visit three days later and took mental notes on their conversation for future use. Says she: "I have decided that my next book will be about my parents. I want to get her at this moment so it will...