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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1988
Page
9
Multiple local notices and advertisements list contact numbers for City Brief submissions and daily rates. Items include tours, services, preschools, hair designers, carpet, flowers, dining, and events with locations in Cedar Rapids and nearby areas.
Actor Ralph Meeker, famed for his Broadway Hal in Picnic and a 50 movie career, died Friday at 67 from a heart attack. He had been hospitalized since September 1987 at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills after strokes. He starred in The Dirty Dozen Brannigan Kiss Me Deadly Paths of Glory and led the ABC series Not for Hire.
A reader query titled No Kidding outlines five presidents and their wives with age differences at marriage. Warren Harding and wife were 79 days older, Millard Fillmore 300 days, Richard Nixon 66 days, Benjamin Harrison 323 days, and George Washington 246 days. Source: Biographies of Presidents. Submit to The Gazette for consideration.
Allison Lightfoot 19 daughter of Iowa Rep Jim Lightfoot is hired as a nanny for Patricia Hearst Shaw and Bernard Shaw in Westport Connecticut caring for two young daughters. Lightfoot declines college this fall and this is her first nanny job. Shaw rose to fame after a 1974 kidnapping by the SLA.
Actor-director Bobby Benson, 32, will spend the 1988-89 school year as artist-in-residence at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He will teach movie making, make a feature film, and be paid $60,000. He and his wife plan to leave Los Angeles for a quieter life.
The fire across a cinderblock building destroyed a Berkeley warehouse holding Reggie Jacksons car collection. Officials said about 35 automobiles including Corvettes Porsches and Barracudas were damaged in the blaze which caused about 4 million dollars in damage. Jackson who lives in Oakland visited the site in distress.
The Treasury Department is examining if Robert Redford violated U.S. law during a three day Cuba visit. The actor director returned from Havana where he led a script-writing workshop for women and met Fidel Castro. Redford says he paid his own expenses, but investigators probe whether Cuba covered costs.
Frank Perdue 68, head of Perdue Farms Inc., wed Mitzi Henderson Ayala 35 in a private Washington ceremony. Ayala, California rice producer and president of the American Agri-Women, leads a national coalition of women in farming and agriculture.
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