Celebrities' Cars Fetch Modest Bids at Thanksgiving Auction
A Thanksgiving weekend car auction in Newport Beach ended with $2 million raised from 500 sold vehicles. Robin Williams, Sylvester Stallone, and Farrah Fawcett saw limited gains as top price hit $66,000 for a Mercedes-Benz owned by a non celebrity. Fawcett's customized Chevy Corvette sold for $12,000, Stallone's 1958 Impala $8,500, his 1956 Nomad $6,300, and Williams' Austin Healy $4,700.
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Hemingway Spanish Civil War dispatch appears in English for first time
A 1937 Pravda dispatch by Ernest Hemingway on the Spanish Civil War was published in English by the Chicago Tribune. The 1,500 word piece, found by MIT professor William Watson, quotes Hemingway urging against fascists led by Francisco Franco and connects to works like For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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Boston
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Chicago Tribune
Tribune Company Syndicate Inc
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Upton Sinclair
Mao Tse-tung
Chou En-lai
China
Mary Hemingway
Actress Jennifer O'Neill Appears After Accidental Shooting
Actress Jennifer O'Neill made public appearances with her 2 year old son Reis at the Bronx Zoo and a Manhattan dinner after an accidental Oct 22 self shot at her Bedford Hills home. Investigators ruled the incident accidental and a grand jury weighs charges.
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Jennifer O’neill
Miss O’neill
Reis
Bronx
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Bedford Hills
Westchester
Carl Vergari
Playboy poll shows women lose virginity earlier and affairs by wives rise
Playboy’s readers survey from 65,300 men and 14,900 women finds women under 21 largely virgins before 16 at 58 percent and 30 percent of all women lost virginity before 16. It reports higher extramarital affairs among married women than men and gives median partners of 7.8 for women and 16.3 for men.
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Playboy Magazine
Playboy
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Kinsey
Top students in survey lean conservative on many issues
The 13th Annual Survey of High Achievers found most top students from happy homes favor conservative views, with 75 percent never having sex and 50 percent approving premarital sex. Reagan earns unusually high approval for the economy, and 363000 students were surveyed from public and private schools nationwide.
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NBC News
Educational Communications Inc
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Unidentified Charred Body Found At Kennedy Grave
U S Park Police reported no identification for a man whose charred body was found at President Kennedy's grave. Tourists discovered the remains Sunday. the body showed first and second degree burns. An autopsy was conducted Monday and results awaited. The man wore a beige sweater blue sneakers and a gray Notre Dame sweat shirt.
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U.S. Park
John Kennedy
Sandra Alley
University of Notre Dame
Britain probes spy cases amid security jitters in London
British authorities pursue multiple espionage cases including Hugh Hambleton who pleads not guilty to spying for the Soviets since 1956. Rhona Ritchie admits passing confidential info to a lover, and a lance corporal is arrested over contact with the Soviet Embassy during the Falklands era. Parliament calls for a full inquiry as MI5's past figure Stephen Ward resurfaces in new disclosures.
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Hugh Hambleton
Canada
Soviet Union
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Britain
Michael Havers
Hambleton
Havers
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Yuri Andropov
KGB
Moscow
Andropov
Rhona Ritchie
Tel Aviv
Sinai
Israel
Egypt
Ritchie
Geoffrey Arthur Prime
Cheltenham Center For
Cheltenham
Margaret Thatcher
Conservative
Prime
Thatcher
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Stephen Ward
John Profumo
Ward
Christine Keeler
Profumo
London Sunday Times
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