Five entertainers die over weekend
United Press International reports a weekend run of entertainer deaths including Laurence Harvey at 45 in London from cancer, Constance Talmadge at 72 after a long illness, Sessue Hayakawa at 83 from cerebral thrombosis with pneumonia, Claire Dodd in her 50s from cancer, and Jennie Tourel in New York at 63 after lung cancer treatment.
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Laurence Harvey
London
Harvey
Elizabeth Taylor
Hollywood
Constance Talmadge
Talmadge
Miss Talmadge
Norma
Natalie
Tokyo
Sessue Hayakawa
Kwai
Claire Dodd
James Cagney
George Raft
Bing Crosby
New York
Jennie Tourel
Hoosick Falls board awards access way contract
Martin Rogers of Cambridge won the bid for building an access way below the main cafeteria at Hoosick Falls Central School for storage. His $6,905 bid was the lowest of seven bids heard at the board of education meeting last week.
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Martin Rogers
Cambridge
Hoosick Falls Central School
Roger
Board of Education
Hall of Photograph opens at Smithsonian to trace early to modern photography
The National Geographic Society notes photography’s origins in the daguerreotype era. A Smithsonian Hall of Photograph exhibit highlights its beginnings and later advances through 20 January 1974, from Daguerre’s 1839 breakthrough to Eastman’s Kodak and the National Geographic’s rise.
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Washington
France
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
National Geographic Society
Smithsonian Institution
Museum of History and Technology
Washington, D.C
Daguerreotype
Tintype
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Europe
United States
George Eastman
Eastman
Kodak
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Guy Phillips
Henry Bloomquist
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Santo DeLuca
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UPI
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Calif
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Mira Loma Detention Center
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