Death Claims Music Man Ed Kilenyi
Edward Kilenyi Sr., longtime silent and sound film music contributor and a teacher to George Gershwin, died at 84 in Tallahassee after a long illness. A Hungarian native who taught Gershwin harmony and composition, he later fit mood music for silent films in New York and worked for 22 years at 20th Century Fox in Hollywood. He accompanied Clara Bow in 1923 and later did music for Abie's Irish Rose in 1927.
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Florida State University
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Old Capitol Theatre
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Medal of Honor Awarded Posthumously for Vietnam Action
Army Secretary Stanley Resor presented the Medal of Honor posthumously to Pfc. Billy L. Lauffer of Tucson Arizona. Lauffer was killed on his seventh day in Vietnam when he charged a Viet Cong machine gun nest to save wounded comrades at the Pentagon ceremony.
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Five Die In Plane Crash Near Skamania Washington
Five persons perished when a single-engine Piper Cherokee crashed on Archer Mountain near Skamania. State aeronautics officials recovered two men two women and a boy at the wooded site. the pilot was identified as Robert B. Flowers Jr. of Waynesboro Virginia. The six-seat craft departed from Charlottesville Virginia and was en route to Burley Idaho.
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American Casualties Hit All-Time Low For 1968
In Saigon the latest seven day tally shows 991 American casualties with 173 killed and 818 wounded. The weekly report notes Vietnam War losses for South Vietnamese forces and 1,642 Communist deaths, bringing total Communist losses to 377,711. American troop strength stands at 543,000 on land and 35,000 at sea.
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