Rafer Johnson, Winner of a Memorable Decathlon, Is Dead Rafer Johnson, Winner of a Memorable Decathlon, Is Dead Rafer Johnson, who carried the American flag into Rome’s Olympic Stadium in August 1960 as the first Black captain of a United States Olympic team and went on to win gold in a memorable decathlon duel, bringing him acclaim as the world’s …
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Jon Pessah’s biography of Yogi Berra covers the quotes and the career as well as the sensitive person often obscured by his public image. Source link
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Honor Blackman, an actress who achieved fame as a beautiful pilot with judo skills and a highly suggestive name in the 1964 James Bond movie “Goldfinger,” then went on to a long screen career in her native England and abroad, has died at her home in Lewes, in southeastern England. She was 94. Her family announced her death in a …
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