Americans Remember the Home Front: An Oral Narrative
Roy Hoopes collects about 200 reminiscences from officials journalists and citizens about U S life from 1941 to 1945. Interviews cover shortages and pride wartime jobs and profits plus tragedies and social issues in Berkshire towns and across the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Hoopes
Hawthorn Books
New York
Hoopes
Berkshire
High Fidelity Magazine
Great Barrington
United States
Pearl Harbor
Louis Speyer
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Speyer
Europe
Sebastian Cabot Dies of Stroke at 59 in Canada
Victoria, BC United Press International veteran actor Sebastian Cabot died at age 59 after a stroke at his Deep Cove home near Victoria. He had suffered a prior stroke in 1974 and was hospitalized three weeks. Cabot, born in London July 16 1918, starred as a portly butler in Family Affair and as a detective in Checkmate and appeared in The Three Musketeers Ghost Story and Stump the Stars. He leaves a wife Kathleen and three children Annette Christopher and Yvonne with residences in Canada and Hollywood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
British Columbia
UPI
Sebastian Cabot
Cabot
Kathleen
Deep Cove
Royal Jubilee Hospital
London
United States
Wazir
Falstaff
Walter Pidgeon Remains Critical With Lung Clot
Walter Pidgeon, 78, remains on the critical list at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. A blood clot in a lung and related leg condition endanger him after a prior brain clot surgery on Aug. 4. doctors report a relapse Monday after initial recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Monica
Calif
UPI
Walter Pidgeon
St. John’s Hospital
Also Mentioned on This Page
Samuel Sass
Marquis Childs
Cologne
Pittsburgh
Washington
Ted Giddings
Eagle
Robert Wheeler
Mass
Roosevelt
Crown Princess of
Holland
Stockbridge
Wheeler
Wilhelmina
Lee
Pease
Pittsfield
Amy Bess Miller
the Eagle
General Electric
Horace Hubbard
Hubbard
Norman Rockwell
Saturday Evening Post
Armchair General
Bennington Banner
BOX — JD
Main Street
Bennington
Annette
Christopher
Yvonne
Canada
Hollywood
Brian Keith
Frank Pettingell
England
BBC Radio
BBC
Adano
Peter Ustinov
John Gielgud
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