Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Phil Silvers, 73, Emmy Award-winning comedian who after a long career in vaudeville achieved Broadway stardom in High Button Shoes (1947) and Top Banana (1951), appeared in such movies as It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but was best known for his portrayal of Master Sergeant Ernie Bilko, the glib, rascally hero of the 1950s TV series the Phil Silvers Show; in Century City, Calif...
DIED. Marion Tanner, ninetyish, quirky, colorful, real-life model for the heroine of the Broadway musical Mame, which was based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame, written by her nephew Edward Everett Tanner III under the pen name Patrick Dennis; of pneumonia precipitated by a stroke; in a New York City nursing home. For more than three decades she ran a salon for struggling artists, writers, self-styled radicals and, later, drifters. In 1964, unable to meet mortgage payments, she was evicted from her house, prompting a deputy sheriff on the case to remark, "She is an amazing woman...
...Monday evening, Cambridge meter maid Elizabeth A. Gallinaro had just finished writing a parking ticket for a Chevrolet parked at the cornner of Trowbridge St. and Broadway when 30-year-old Cantabrigian Debbie Sharpe allegedly grabbed her and punched her in the face. Three witnesses at the scene of the crime confirmed the incident...
...Residents of Adams, Apley Court, Claverly, Eliot, Lowell, Quincy, Winthrop, Kirkland, Leverett A-E, and all Freshman dorms vote at the Fire House at the intersection of Quincy and Broadway...
When polls close tonight, all the ballot boxes will be taken to the Longfellow School on Broadway St. where 125 workers will begin the ritualistic vote count by hand tomorrow morning