Thursday Reads

This writer sees a connection between the "controversial" Gilette ad and the Jayme Closs incident.
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Obituary:  Singer, musician, and businesswoman Bonnie Guitar, 95, has died.  She is best remembered for her 1957 hit, "Dark Moon."  It later became a hit for Gale Storm.

Her real name was Bonnie Buckingham:

Bonnie Guitar was born Bonnie Buckingham on March 25, 1923, in Seattle. Her parents, Doris and John, raised her and her five siblings on a farm outside Auburn, Wash., some 70 miles south of the Puget Sound.

Ms. Guitar’s brothers gave her their flat-top Gibson guitar when she was 13. Soon after that, she started entering local talent contests and performing in a musical revue that appeared throughout the region. She also began using the stage name Bonnie Guitar.

In the early 1940s she met and started taking music lessons from the guitar teacher and inventor Paul Tutmarc. They married in 1944 and had a daughter, Paula, before parting ways in 1955.

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