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Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott, and Toni Morrison joined hundreds of audience members last night at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum for an evening of readings in celebration of the 70th birthday of fellow Nobel prize-winner Wole Soyinka, who became the first African to receive the prize...
Swimming for 16 hours straight in freezing water, fighting a 2-m.p.h. current and dodging ships might not be everyone's fantasy. But surrounded by his family on his 69th birthday, upon being asked how he wanted to celebrate his 70th, George Brunstad heard the words "swim the English Channel" pop out of his mouth. At that point Brunstad, who happens to be actor Matt Damon's uncle, had been swimming competitively in Masters programs for 31 years, and he had won more than 100 Masters championships. As he recalls, "Everyone said, 'Yeah, you can do it! That...
...Brunstad's 70th, the weather was too bad to attempt the swim, but three days later, slathered in lanolin and petroleum jelly, he slipped into the water at 9:13 a.m. at Abbot's Cliff, south of Dover, England, and emerged on Sangatte Beach, south of Calais, France, 15 hours and 59 minutes later. Every half hour along the way, he was thrown a nutrient drink. Every two hours, he took a swish of Tom's of Maine mouthwash to rinse the salt water out of his mouth. With the current, Brunstad estimates he swam a total of 32 miles...
Somewhere Colonel Tom Parker is smiling. The carnival huckster who managed Elvis Presley throughout the rock 'n' roller's career would love it that the King just topped the British singles chart for the 19th time - with a rerelease of Jailhouse Rock, timed to what would have been his 70th birthday. (RCA is rereleasing all of Elvis' U.K. No. 1 hits.) The celebration is also taking place in Germany, where Bonn's Haus der Geschichte has mounted a show about Elvis' 1958-60 tour of duty as a U.S. soldier in the Hessen town of Friedberg . Some 300 items will...
...other Bronx classmates have already contacted Shapiro and West, asking to be included in the group's 75th reunion, in 2006. They have some good incentives. "When we went out to Los Angeles for our 70th, people had aches and pains," recalls Lauren. "But all of a sudden, they were gone. It was like getting a tonic. Just speaking about the Bronx Boys gives me a high...