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BRIGHTON--A Harvard student was arrested last night after refusing to leave the Oakwood Nursing Home during a march protesting unfair working conditions at the home...
Which is not to say beauty does not still walk down the street in Dalton, Ga., and into the Oakwood for eggs and grits, or into Jimmy's for a cocktail. But the Miss Resaca Beach pageant is no more. It could be that when Marla Maples, who won the thing, ended up with Donald Trump as her trophy, it took the shine off the prize...
Jerry Garcia: Ashes reportedly scattered in the Pacific Ocean Jimi Hendrix: Greenwood Cemetery, Renton, Washington Janis Joplin: Ashes on coastline of Marin County, California Jim Morrison: Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, steps away from romantic composer and pianist Frederic Chopin Hank Williams: Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama Bobby Darin: Body donated to UCLA medical research Buddy Holly: Lubbock City Cemetery, Lubbock, Texas Elvis Presley: Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee, in a mausoleum, alongside his mother
...flesh, however, this book is full of fervor. There's a lot of preaching, but sanctimony can't even creep in the back door. Richard's descriptions of an earlier search for the Lord, when he forsook show business to study the Bible at Oakwood College, are rich not only in regret but in comedy, much of it knowing. "The elders didn't like me taking my yellow Cadillac on the campus," Richard confesses. "They had discovered that I was a homosexual, and I resented the discovery . . . They forgave me, oh, definitely they did forgive...
...neighbor who waxes her driveway, probably the best known of Bombeck's nifties. It has a dead-on, chisel-it-on-my-tombstone truthfulness. But for the moment, no one paid much attention to her capering. She did a column a week, at $3 each, for the Kettering-Oakwood Times, a suburban weekly. Her desk was a piece of plywood supported by cinder blocks in the Bombeck bedroom. Her participation in the stately procession of English literature stopped before the family came home, and the shoe-leather minute steaks and ketchup