World's first recording star Harriet Atwood turns 103
Harriet Hadden Atwood, a music teacher from West Orange New Jersey, celebrated her 103rd birthday after meeting Thomas Edison in 1887 at his workshop when she played piano for the first phonograph. She married George Atwood, later an electrical engineer with Western Electric, and still plays piano at a nursing home. At 95 she composed a march dedicated to Eisenhower.
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Bitter cold follows snow across Midwest and South
The Central United States endured a severe spring storm with over a foot of snow from the Mississippi Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes. Temperatures plunged 50 plus degrees in 24 hours, from Virginia to Washington and beyond, as flooding and rain affected the Northeast. Nine deaths were reported in Tennessee and Kentucky, with traffic accidents and carbon monoxide poisoning noted. Memphis recorded 17.3 inches of snow, while a city garbage strike hampered cleanup and students swam in a heated pool at Western Kentucky State University.
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Wire barriers at lake on Berlin border stall defections
East German frogmen laid wire barriers in a lake on the West Berlin border to stop underwater defections from communism. West Berlin police reported the device is designed to block escape attempts from East Germany.
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