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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Things first began going wrong for Ed when he was five and his right eye hemorrhaged. Then at age nine, his left retina became detached, leaving him sightless. Ed says that he doesn't remember anything about losing sight in his right eye, except the operation. But when he couldn't play baseball anymore, the full three years I wondered 'Why the hell am I in this situation,'" Ed says. And he mentions his grandmother, a member of the Holiness Church in Wyoming, Del., where Ed has lived all his life, who told him that if he prayed hard enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ed Bordley Grapples with Being Blind, Being Black and Being at Harvard | 1/11/1978 | See Source »

Chaplin's career began at the age of five on the stage of a London music hall. He traveled around Europe and America in various vaudeville troupes until, in 1913, he stopped in Hollywood, intrigued with the infant film industry. At first he played bit parts in chaotic one-reelers, but within two years he became Hollywood's leading star. In his most productive period, before the advent of talkies in 1927, he turned out such brilliant films as The Gold Rush, The Kid and The Tramp. Soon he was the most recognized celebrity in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charlie Chaplin | 1/10/1978 | See Source »

...into trouble in the United States in the early Fifties, and when he refused to alter his stance he was denied re-entry into the country after a European vacation. Insulted, he purchased a villa in Switzerland, where he lived until his death last month at the age of 88. He rarely left his retreat, coming to America once, two years ago, to receive a special Academy Award, and going to England several years ago to be knighted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charlie Chaplin | 1/10/1978 | See Source »

...changes so manifest this season began with Pete Orschiedt. "Petie," as the swimmers affectionately called him because of his age (he graduated from the University of Florida in 1970), could communicate with the team where Essick could not. He was the prototype 'good ole boy'; Southern, funny, and refreshingly frank--he once called Yale "a bunch of chickenshits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Forgotten Man | 1/10/1978 | See Source »

...Piano Man, his debut album on Columbia Records, which followed a virtually unknown and very rare release called Cold Spring Harbor. The title track from Piano Man, along with other slow ballads such as "Captain Jack" and the more upbeat "Ballad of Billy the Kid," created the in age for Joel, and he has continued it with songs such as "Miami 2107" and "I've Loved These Days...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: More Than Just a Piano Player | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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