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Ford Backstage Hat Gift At Jerry Ford and Friends Concert
Former President Gerald Ford was surprised by a custom cowboy hat backstage in Grand Rapids during the Jerry Ford and Friends Concert. He chatted with Mickey Gilley and Johnny Lee and asked about Lee’s newborn daughter Cherish, born four weeks earlier to Charlene Tilton of Dallas. He later visited with guests, while other notes cover robotics teaching, Getty and Marcus anecdotes, F Lee Bailey cash proposal, the Ritz Carlton name change in Washington, Danny Thomas fundraising for St Jude, a Dallas hotel room robbery of Boz Scaggs, and the singer’s wedding trip.
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UPI
Jerry & Friends
Gerald Ford
Jerry Ford and Friends
Grand Rapids
Mich
Mickey Gilley
Johnny Lee
Lee
Cherish
Charlene Tilton
J. Paul Getty
Stanley Marcus
Neiman Marcus Department Stores
Getty
Neiman Marcus
Marcus
James Brady
Wcbs-Tv
New York
News At Five
California
Bill Getty
Fairfield
Conn
Bailey
Danny Thomas
Children’s Hospital
Thomas
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis
Tenn
St. Jude
Marlo Thomas
Boz Scaggs
Dallas
Scaggs
Victoria Pryor
Jack Hobday