Word: sarasota
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. HELEN KREIS WALLENDA, 85, the last of the original Great Wallendas high-wire act; in Sarasota, Florida...
DIED. EDWARD LOWE, 75, inventor; in Sarasota, Florida. He first created it as a lark for a friend in 1947, but Lowe soon realized its potential--and for a while his own name became almost as famous as the catchy moniker he bestowed on the household staple that earned him millions of dollars: Kitty Litter...
DIED. JOHN CAMERON SWAYZE, 89, newscaster turned pitchman; in Sarasota, Florida. Swayze found fame in 1949 "hopscotching the world for headlines" on Camel News Caravan, a network-news prototype. The Kansan later attained pop icondom hawking Timex watches, the ones that would "take a licking and keep on ticking...
...Chicagoans began climbing atop one another's big shoulders to tear the No. 23 jersey down from the rafters of the United Center, it was a Chicago White Sox minor- league outfielder named Charles Poe who confirmed the rumor. When Jordan walked out of the White Sox camp in Sarasota, Florida, on March 2, he told Poe and a few of his minor-league buddies that he was leaving for good. "We really thought he was playing around," Poe told the Chicago Sun-Times. "But then he talked, and we saw it in his eyes. I'll tell...
...Swimming at Auburn (Sarasota...