Peggy Lee Golden Songbird shines in career and life
Peggy Lee, the golden songbird of her era, discusses perfectionism and creativity, her $25,000 to $30,000 show investments, and a career spanning three decades with over 500 songs written or recorded. Born Norma Jean Engstrom in Jamestown, she rose from humble beginnings to become a leading vocalist for Benny Goodman and a celebrated artist known for hits like Why Don't You Do Right and Fever. Despite three marriages ending in divorce, she remains highly popular with audiences and peers, enjoys painting and poetry, and draws inspiration from Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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New York
Peggy Lee
Peggy
Ella Fitzgerald
Norma Jean Engstrom
Jamestown
N.C
Midwest
Benny Goodman
Manana
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bowdlerize origins noted by World Almanac
The World Almanac cites Thomas Bowdler’s 1818 Family Shakespeare omissions as the origin of bowdlerizing. It also notes his expurgations of the Old Testament and Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, defining bowdlerize as making prudish deletions from literary works.
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Thomas Bowdler
Shakespeare
World Almanac
Bowdler
Gibbon
Miss Anne Bancroft Pledged at Butler University
Miss Anne Bancroft daughter of Mr and Mrs Arnold Jones of Kennebunkport is pledged to Kappa Kappa Gamma at Butler University. She joins 131 coed Butler students pledged during Rush Week. Bancroft a Kennebunk High School graduate is in Indianapolis Indiana for the event.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Anne Bancroft
Arnold Jones
Main Street
Kennebunkport
Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority
Butler University
Butler
Two Family Dwelling Sold in Biddeford at 21-23 Summer St
Realty news notes the sale of a two family dwelling at 21 23 Summer Street Biddeford six rooms per apartment. The property owned by Mr and Mrs Edgar Morin of 54 Adams Street Biddeford is sold to Mr and Mrs Raymond Crepeau of 80 Granite Street Biddeford. Negotiated through Edgar Morin Real Estate Agency Biddeford.
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Summer St
Biddeford
Edgar Morin
Adams St
Biford
Raymond Crepeau
Granite St
Durant engagement announced in Old Orchard Beach
Mr and Mrs C Russell Durant announce the engagement of daughter Geraldine Ada Durant to William H Yates son of Mrs William H Yates of 42 School St Old Orchard Beach and the late William H Yates Geraldine is a graduate of Old Orchard Beach High School attended Simmons College and is a senior at Westbrook Junior College Her fiancé is a graduate of Old Orchard Beach High School and a senior at the University of Maine Orono where he belongs to Sigma Nu Fraternity No wedding date set Photo by Loring Studies Your Journal Classified reache s Over 30 000 Readers Per Day
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C. Russell Durant
Adelaide Road
Old Orchard Beach
Geraldine Ada Durant
William H. Yates
School St
University of Maine
Orono
Sigma Nu Fraternity
Loring Studies
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Biddeford Junior High School
Patricia Bon
Adele D'Amico
Susan Spath
Ron
Ald Gagnon
Kathleen McAuley
Sarah Janeoli
Boyle
Hal Boyle
Hollywood
Ken Kennedy
WDAY
Fargo
N.D
Eggy Lee
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Grant
W. T. Grant
Realty News
Maine
Dacron
Grant’s Shoe Club
Val
Biddeford Shopping Center
Pennleigh
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