Hints and tips:
...Huge homes for celebrities including Lucille Ball, Lon Chaney and Frank Sinatra tended towards revivalist colonial or Tudor....
...First came Picnic, a 1955 adaptation of the William Inge play about a small town atwitter over a ruggedly handsome visitor, which starred William Holden, Kim Novak and Rosalind Russell....
...It was also from the Ritz that she planned her triumphant comeback, in 1954, and where, according to her biographer Lisa Chaney, she gave up “on a life that was private . . . to cultivate her legend”....
...In fact, only three years earlier, many movie theatres had prevented audiences entering during the opening nativity scene in William Wyler’s Ben-Hur....
...North Carolina’s Roy Williams, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Connecticut’s Jim Calhoun, Kentucky’s Tubby Smith, Louisville’s Rick Pitino, Arizona’s Lute Olsen – these are the real dramatis personaes....
...It first arose in 1865, when General William Sherman, conqueror of Atlanta, issued Special Field Orders No. 15, which extended a gift of 40 acres to freed slaves....
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