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Friday, March 27, 2015

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Birthday: "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."

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William James Durant (1885-1981) Author Born to Quebecois immigrants, Will Durant trained to be a priest but got caught up in the...
Birthday: Too much success made Somerset Maugham insufferable

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Addams, Charles, Addams and Evil (Simon & Schuster, 1st ed., 16th printing, 1947). Collection of cartoons by the longtime New Yor...
Birthday: "Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”

Francis Russell O’Hara (1926-1966) Author, poet, critic Recipient, The National Book Award, 1972 Frank O’Hara studied music at...
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Poet, novelist, editor, essayist, critic, lexicographer (unfinished portrait of Johnson, at 70, by Jame...
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