50+ World

March 27, 2021

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Larry McMurtry Has Left the Book Store

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and Booked Up mega-bookstore owner Larry McMurtry died on March 25, 2021 at the age of 84. Larry McMurtry teaching at Rice University in…

March 14, 2021

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Folks, Facts, & Fun From March 1931

News Headlines, Entertainment & Trivia from February, 1931: Ann Harding stars in the classic movie East Lynne; Cab Calloway records Minnie the Moocher; Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller The…

February 24, 2021

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Fascinating Facts From February 1940

News Headlines & Entertainment Trivia from November, 1940: The classic movie thriller The House of the Seven Gables premieres, author Christopher Morley tops Best-Seller lists with Kitty Foyle, and Bob…

November 22, 2020

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What Was New in November 1952?

News Headlines & Entertainment Trivia from November, 1952: John Steinbeck's East of Eden is the #1 best seller; classic movie premiere of The Turning Point; and the #1 hit song…

October 28, 2020

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Fascinating Facts From October 1940

News Headlines & Entertainment Trivia from August, 1940: Classic Movies Premiere - The Great Dictator, starring Charlie Chaplin & Paulette Goddard; Novelist Jan Struther's Mrs. Miniver Tops Best-Seller Lists; Everyman's…

October 21, 2020

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What Was New in October 1952?

News Headlines & Entertainment Trivia from October, 1952: Classic movie release - The World in His Arms, based on the story by Rex Beach; Joan Davis stars on TV's I…

September 13, 2020

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This Was Nifty in September 1950

News Headlines & Entertainment Trivia from September, 1950: Classic Movie Premiere - Panic in the Streets, Oscar-winning screenwriters Edna & Edward Anhalt; Operation Magic Carpet Yemen is completed; Ernest Hemingway's…

September 7, 2020

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September 1947 Headlines

News Headlines & Boomer Entertainment Trivia From September 1947: Dark Passage Film-Noir Premiere; Goodnight Moon is published by Margaret Wise Brown; Near You by Craig Francis & His Orchestra is…

September 5, 2020

Biography,
Reading

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Howard Engel, The Writer Who Forgot How to Read

Remembering Canadian journalist, CBC producer, and crime fiction author Howard Engel, who brought his Jewish Detective Benny Cooperman, to life in 14 novels. (Howard Engel Photo: By Permission of Beverly…

June 13, 2020

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June 1949 Moments in Time

News Headlines & Entertainment Trivia from June, 1949: Classic Movie Release - Jimmy Stewart in The Stratton Story; First Women Graduates of Harvard Medical School; George Orwell's 1984 is Published.…