Hemingway Days Festival Canceled Over Family Profit Demands
The annual Hemingway Days festival in Key West was canceled after Ernest Hemingway’s three sons demanded a 10 percent cut of proceeds and total control of marketing. Organizers cited integrity concerns and pressure from the licensing agency representing Jack, Patrick, and Gregory Hemingway.
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Ernest Hemingway
Key West
Maria Metzner
Fashioncensing of America
Fashion Licensing of America
Hemingway Brothers
Jack
Patrick
Gregory
Ms. Metzner
Mom leaves six children at school
A mother abandoned by her husband with welfare support drops her six children at the Christian Home and Bible School in Orlando. She says she will return after finding work and school funds, while the children express belief in her plan and the school seeks funds to avoid foster care placement.
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Mom
Alicia
WFTV
Orlando
Cody
Christian Home and Bible School
Shell tests robot gas pump at Sacramento station
A Shell station in Sacramento introduces a "customer interface center" robot that drives up to the window, identifies fuel grade, opens the cap, inserts the nozzle, processes credit card data, and prints a receipt. The two minute process awaits regulatory approval and a pricing decision. Customers must wear a windshield device the size of a credit card to transmit vehicle data.
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Sacramento
Calif
Shell
Art Driscoll
Shell Oil Products Co
Houston
Singer Nyro Dies at 49 From Ovarian Cancer
New York AP Laura Nyro famed singer songwriter dies at home from ovarian cancer aged 49. She wrote hits for Peter, Paul and Mary Blood Sweat and Tears the Fifth Dimension Three Dog Night and Barbra Streisand and influenced a generation of women artists. Her work helped define late 1960s early 1970s folk pop.
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New York
Laura Nyro
Eli
Nyro
Peter, Paul and
Mary
Fifth Dimension
Barbra Streisand
Mary Travers
Chet Atkins
The
Four Tops
Aretha Franklin
Linda Ronstadt
Diana Ross
Frank Sinatra
Joni Mitchell
Peter Gallway
AIDS victim found dead with Kevorkian message
A unidentified AIDS patient Heidi Aseltine was found dead in a Relax Inn motel in Romulus Michigan with a note directing to call Kevorkian attorney Geoffrey Fieger. Police plan autopsy and investigators weigh possible assisted suicide linked to Kevorkian.
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Romulus, Mich
Jack Kevorkian
Kevorkian
Michael Schwartz
Heidi Aseltine
Indianapolis
Relax Inn
David Early
Ms. Aseltine
Indiana
Geoffrey Fieger
Fieger
Caribbean
Ww] Radio
Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office
Patricia
Aseltine
Holt
Mich
Michigan
Associated Press
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