Word: lena
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LENA HORNE: THE LADY AND HER MUSIC...
...says Lena Horne, she probably would have been a schoolteacher, telling children about the three Rs. Lucky children! Fortunate parents! Celestial meetings of the P.T.A.! But with all due respect to the nation's teachers, one must add that it is truly the impossible dream. On opening night last week it was hard to imagine the lady anywhere else than on the stage of Broadway's Nederlander Theater, where she was doing what she was obviously born to do: singing, strutting and enchanting audiences...
...home economics class, taught by Maggie Miller-Kleinhenz, now includes Lena Schmidt, 73, who regularly goes downstairs from the center to help teach embroidery to seventh-graders. "Embroidery requires a lot of individual attention, and Lena makes it easier for me," says Miller-Kleinhenz. "It's been fun to watch the little kids flock around her, and I can learn something about patience...
Looking out over the gilded hall, where shouting matches were degenerating into fistfights, the conference chairwoman, Lena Jeger, rapped her gavel and shook her head like an angry schoolmarm. "This isn't a football match!" she cried over the pandemonium. "We are making a spectacle of ourselves!" So it seemed. At the very time when Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government was slumping and vulnerable to possible attack, some 1,250 Labor Party delegates trekked to the seaside resort of Blackpool for their annual conference last week and promptly turned their guns on one another. The result...