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Obituary: Actress Lori Nelson, who made numerous appearances on television and in movies, died on August 23. She was 87 years old.
Born Dixie Kay Nelson on Aug. 15, 1933, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nelson and her family moved to Encino when she was young. She signed with Universal on her 17th birthday and made her film debut in Bend of The River (1952), starring Stewart, Arthur Kennedy and Hudson, who would become a close friend and mentor._____
She went on to star with Curtis in The All American (1953), with Murphy again in Destry (1954), with Jane Russell in Underwater! (1954) and with Mamie Van Doren in Untamed Youth (1957).
Another obituary: Bestselling author Gail Sheehy, 83, died yesterday. She wrote many bestselling books including Passages. She was also known as the widow of the founder of New York magazine, Clay Felker.
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Born Gail Henion in Mamaroneck, New York, the daughter of an advertising man and beauty consultant, she had been a storyteller since childhood. She was an undergraduate at the University of Vermont and a journalism major at Columbia University, where she found a mentor in the anthropologist Margaret Mead._____
After school, she married medical student Albert Francis Sheehy (they divorced in 1968) and had a daughter, Maura. (Sheehy and Felker later adopted a girl, Momh).
Sheehy's journalism career began at the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and the New York Herald Tribune, her colleagues including Tom Wolfe, before joining New York in 1968. Felker, the volatile and visionary publisher, became her mentor and lover. They dated off and on for more than a decade before marrying in 1984. Felker, who died in 2008, was the "love of her life," she would later write. She credited their bond in part to lessons she had absorbed from Passages. She had been willing to leave him, if only to prove she could manage alone.
In case you missed it, Day 1 of the GOP convention:
So I don't forget, here is a video of Day 2:
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