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Strange as it may seem, there was a time, back in the years just after World War II, when present-day video game giant Nintendo was a small family-owned company whose main product was a card game called hanafuda, a favorite pastime of Japanese gangsters.
Forbes magazine has just released its Forbes 400 ranking of the richest people in the United States, and within it, there's an intriguing message: If you want to be really, really, really wealthy, it's going to take a while, and you should plan on working past the typical U.S. retirement age of 61.
If you could skip through time and live forever at a certain point in life, what age would it be? Given our traditionally youth-obsessed culture and penchant for nostalgia, you might guess that most Americans would choose to be perpetual teenagers.
In the 1970s, "Dolby" was that button on your cassette deck that you pressed to magically eliminate static hiss that could easily mar the beauty of, say, Jimmy Page's guitar solos on Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy.
Remember those pictures of the late Michael Jackson sleeping in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber in the 1980s in an effort to stay youthful? It didn't work for him, sadly. But that hasn't kept other celebrities from dabbling in exotic methods of reinvigoration.
If you've read Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On The Road , you probably remember the heart-rending section in which protagonist Sal Paradise, who's waiting to catch a bus from Bakersfield to Los Angeles, suddenly spies "the cutest little Mexican girl in slacks coming across my sight." Suddenly…
If Ronald Lee Motley hadn't existed, some novelist or screenwriter surely would have made him up: a high-powered, flamboyant attorney with a smooth-as-silk Southern drawl who fancied ostrich-skin cowboy boots and liked to sail on a 165-foot yacht named after Themis, the female Greek titan of law,…
Julie Harris took up acting because she was self-conscious about her looks as a young girl. "I looked so plain - bands on my teeth, bird legs, mouse face, hair that wouldn't curl," she once explained in an interview.
Marian McPartland had not just one, but two stellar careers.
Remember Beatlemania? For that transcendent moment in boomer history, we owe thanks to concert promoter Sid Bernstein, who died on Aug. 21 at age 95 in New York City.