Movie posters

Old movie posters at a book collector's auction

Old movie posters at a book collector’s auction

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Dickens Oil paint portrait

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Mary Thom – JAWS member – In memorium

Sad News – From the Journalism and Women’s website

Dear JAWS friends: With great sadness I must tell you that our sister in JAWS, Mary Thom, died on Friday after a tragic motorcycle accident in New York. Mary was a member and staunch supporter of JAWS for many years. She was a long-time editor of Ms. Magazine. Many JAWS members have worked with her in her role as editor at the Women’s Media Center, and all of us have been touched by her generous heart. We will miss her and send our love and support to her sister, longtime JAWS member Susan Loubet, a journalist in New Mexico who… read more

New York Times Obit April 28, 2013

 

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Puppy learning to go down stairs

It takes an old dog to teach a puppy new tricks. This video was posted by Caitlin Doucette on Facebook. It is so great to watch I am posting it to give non-Facebook friends a place to see it.


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Catherine O’Neill – a life ended too soon

This is sad.  It is especially difficult to learn since I had just been thinking about her.  (See post below – Then and Now.)   Found this notice on Kevin Roderick’s LA Observed website.  He posted it December 31, 2012 4:54 PM:

“I’m catching up on some locally prominent deaths I’ve missed during the holiday slowdown.”

“Catherine O’Neill, 70, was co-founder of the the Women’s  Commission for Refugee Women and Children, and before that a California political activist who ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for Secretary of State and twice for the state Senate.”

“She also had been director of the United Nations Information Center in Washington and editorial director at KFWB here. O’Neill died at UCLA of complications from cancer, her husband, the journalist Richard Reeves, said. “She ran for office because she wanted to get things done,” said Kathleen Brown, the former California state treasurer. “It wasn’t about the power. Something would tick her off.” LAT, NYT, Women’s Refugee Commission.”

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