zEN mAN (observing the amazing space shuttle on its last voyage (spectacular sight this morning over the Golden Gate Bridge) it took a special leg of its flight to pass over Arizona where former Rep Gabby Giffords stood with her Astronaut husband Mark Kelly and cheered (Mark was the pilot on the last flight of "Endeavour") so long space shuttle)
Paul Krugman: Disdain for Workers (New York Times)
By now everyone knows how Mitt Romney, speaking to donors in Boca Raton, washed his hands of almost half the country - the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes - declaring, "My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." By now, also, many people are aware that the great bulk of the 47 percent are hardly moochers; most are working families who pay payroll taxes, and elderly or disabled Americans make up a majority of the rest.
Susan Estrich: The 47 Percent (Creators Syndicate)
"(M)y job is not to worry about those people," Romney reportedly said. "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 - 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene. In his lifetime, Brahms's popularity and influence were considerable; following a comment by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow, he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the Three Bs.
In 1889, one Theo Wangemann, a representative of American inventor Thomas Edison, visited the composer in Vienna and invited him to make an experimental recording. Brahms played an abbreviated version of his first Hungarian dance on the piano. The recording was later issued on an LP of early piano performances (compiled by Gregor Benko). Although the spoken introduction to the short piece of music is quite clear, the piano playing is largely inaudible due to heavy surface noise. Nevertheless, this remains the earliest recording made by a major composer. Analysts and scholars remain divided, however, as to whether the voice that introduces the piece is that of Wangemann or of Brahms.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Johannes Brahms
Charlie wrote:
Theo Wangemann recorded Johannes Brahms in 1889.
Adam answered:
Joplin? No, Charles-Marie Widor.
Marian responded:
John Knowles Paine
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Johannes Brahms
Sally said:
I'm gonna say, the answer to today's trivia question is Johannes Brahms.
PS: Won't be here tomorrow as I am going on a short overnight stay entertaining the company. Gee, we're having a swell time, but all good things must come to an end as he is leaving Sunday...
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
Theo Wangemann is best known as the technician who recorded Johannes Brahms at the piano in Vienna on December 2, 1889. He probably one of the first recording engineers.
MAM wrote:
Johannes Brahms ~ On December 2nd 1889, Theo Wangemann recorded Johannes Brahms performing two segments of music at the piano. The works recorded included part of a paraphrase of Strauss' Libelle, preceded by measures 13-72 of Brahms' 1872 arrangement of the first Hungarian Dance for solo piano.
Johannes Brahms at his piano
Brahms Plays His Hungarian Dance No.1 (Excerpt), 1889
Glad your jury duty went off without a hitch. And happy Autumnal Equinox!
BttbBob responded:
Brahms, I think... The exact copy (with many original items) of Edison's Menlo Park laboratory at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI is truly something to behold...
(Upper level of the laboratory)
As is the whole complex, for that matter. Formally, it is called The Edison Institute and was dedicated on the 50th anniversary of the incandescent light bulb by President Hoover in 1929. Of the 260 people in attendance, some of the more famous were Marie Curie, George Eastman, John D. Rockefeller, Will Rogers, and Orville Wright. The Henry Ford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Ford may have been a lot of things, some not so good, but he was indeed a philanthropist when he envisioned the project, "I am collecting the history of our people as written into things their hands made and used.... When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived, and that, I think, is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition..." And what a collection it is, too. Part of growing up and going to school in mid-Michigan traditionally includes at least one field trip there. I still remember mine in 6th grade. I've been back since several times and will probably go again. I don't think there's anyplace quite like it, anywhere... Except the Smithsonian...
And, Joe S answered:
John Knowles Paine (January 9, 1839 - April 25, 1906), was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. In 1889, he made one of the first musical recordings on wax cylinder with Theo Wangemann, who was experimenting with sound recording on the newly invented phonograph.
Well, who knew? I certainly didn't. I used to go to a dentist named Dr. Paine, no really it's true. He didn't hurt me with all his drilling and all, but all the fillings he put in my teeth fell out, and several of the teeth he worked on broke. He doesn't look anything like John Knowles Paine, Dr. Paine has a full head of wavy blond hair and has beautiful teeth. I should have gone to his dentist. True story.
Mary Sue Wilkinson is a local woman performing with a band called Sister Wilene, she has a voice like an angel.
Check out three of her songs.
Mitt Romney's only choice now is to spread this conspiracy theory: There is no Barack Obama. Have you ever met Barack Obama, shaken his hand, or had a beer with him? No? And why do you think that is?
We found a nice spot in Signal Hill to watch the Shuttle, but my beloved marine layer hadn't quite burned off, so all we saw was a fuzzy blob skitter up the hazy coast.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt hosting, music by Mumford & Sons'.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', 'Parking Wars', another 'Parking Wars', still another 'Parking Wars', and yet another 'Parking Wars'.
AMC offers 'Into the West' (Dreams and Schemes), followed by the movie 'Shanghai Noon', then the movie 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 8 - Sabatiello's
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 6 - Cafe Tavolini
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 1 - Mojito's
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Bonapartes
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Seascape
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 6 - The Granary
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 1
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 2
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 3
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 4
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 9 - The Quality of LifeNEW
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 10 - Chain of Command, Part 1 NEW
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 11 - Chain of Command, Part 2 NEW
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 12 - Ship in a Bottle NEW
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 3 - A Town Called Mercy
[9:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 4 - The Power of Three NEW
[10:00PM] COPPER - Season 1 - Ep 5 - La Tempete
[11:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 3 - A Town Called Mercy
[12:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 4 - The Power of Three
[1:00AM] COPPER - Season 1 - Ep 5 - La Tempete
[2:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 3 - A Town Called Mercy
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 4 - The Power of Three
[4:00AM] COPPER - Season 1 - Ep 5 - La Tempete
[5:00AM] THE TIMEY-WIMEY OF DOCTOR WHO (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Don't Be Tardy For The Wedding', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and still another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins', 'Kevin Hart: Laugh At My Pain', 'Katt Williams: It's Pimpin' Pimpin'', and 'Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker'.
FX has LIVE'College Football', followed by FRESH'UFC On FX', '2½ Men', and another '2½ Men'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Bunk
[6:30AM] Bunk
[7:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[7:15AM] Exam
[9:30AM] The Three Stooges-Restless Knights
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-Rockin' Thru the Rockies
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-Saved by the Belle
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-The Sitter Downers
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-Slippery Silks
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges-Sock-a-Bye-Baby
[12:00PM] Blood of the Vampire
[1:45PM] Fiend Without a Face
[3:30PM] Bunk
[4:00PM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[4:15PM] Buffy the Vampire Slayer
[6:15PM] Dark Mirror
[8:00PM] Hostel Part II
[10:00PM] Open Water
[11:45PM] Hostel Part II
[1:45AM] Open Water
[3:30AM] Phantoms
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] The Pool
[7:35A] Instead of Abracadabra
[8:00A] THE DAY BEFORE - DVF
[8:30A] THE DAY BEFORE - Versace
[9:00A] THE DAY BEFORE - Alexander Wang
[9:30A] THE DAY BEFORE - Narciso Rodriguez
[10:00A] THE DAY BEFORE - Nina Ricci
[10:30A] THE DAY BEFORE - Jeremy Scott
[11:00A] Turn The River
[12:35P] The Pool
[2:10P] The 27 Club
[3:40P] I'm Not There
[6:00P] GET TO WORK - A Complete 180 (Episode 5, Season 1)
[7:00P] GET TO WORK (Episode 6, Season 1)
[8:00P] Colin Fitz Lives!
[9:30P] The New Tenants
[10:00P] The Squid And The Whale
[11:30P] Love Lust & The Undead
[12:00A] Room in Rome
[1:50A] Angel
[3:50A] The Squid And The Whale
[5:20A] Land of the Heads
[5:30A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - Cyprus (Episode 4, Season 2) (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Starship Troopers', followed by the movie 'Camel Spiders'.
Bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, from left, frontman Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page appear at a media screening ahead of the worldwide theatrical release of Led Zeppelin's 2007 Celebration Day concert at the O2, on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 in London.
Photo by Miles Willis
Yoko Ono and Amnesty International awarded the Russian punk band Pussy Riot this year's LennonOno grant for peace.
Ono presented the award to Pyotr Verzilov, husband of Nadia Tolokonnikova - one of three imprisoned members of Pussy Riot sentenced in August to two years in prison for performing an irreverent song mocking Russian President Vladimir Putin inside Moscow's main cathedral.
Verzilov thanked Ono, saying the grant increased international pressure on Russian authorities to release the women.
The LennonOno Grant for Peace is given every two years to honor Yoko Ono's late husband John Lennon's dedication to peace and human rights.
U.S. actor Richard Gere (L) talks next to actress Susan Sarandon (R) and director Nicholas Jarecki during the opening ceremony of the 60th San Sebastian Film Festival at the Kursaal Centre, September 21, 2012. The actors star alongside Tim Roth and Laetitia Casta in the financial thriller Arbitrage, part of the festival's Official Section.
Photo by Vincent West
For anyone who's ever been tired of listening to someone drone on and on and on, two Japanese researchers have the answer.
The SpeechJammer, a device that disrupts a person's speech by repeating his or her own voice at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds, was named Thursday as a 2012 winner of the Ig Nobel prize - an award sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for weird and humorous scientific discoveries.
As usual, the ersatz Nobels were handed out by real Nobel laureates, including 2007 economics winner Eric Maskin, who was also the prize in the "Win a Date with a Nobel Laureate" contest.
Other winners feted Thursday at Harvard University's opulent Sanders Theatre included Dutch researchers who won the psychology prize for studying why leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower look smaller; four Americans who took the neuroscience prize for demonstrating that sophisticated equipment can detect brain activity in dead fish; a British-American team that won the physics prize for explaining how and why ponytails bounce; and the U.S. General Accountability Office, which won the literature prize for a report about reports.
Rouslan Krechetnikov, an engineering professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, and graduate student Hans Meyer took home the fluid dynamics prize for research into the sloshing that goes on in coffee cup as it's carried.
When Delores ''Dolly'' Brumfield started dating her future husband, Joe White, in the 1970s, she never bothered to tell him about her youth - when she played in a league of her own.
''I really didn't tell that many people about it. For one thing, they wouldn't have believed me,'' Brumfield, now 80, said, recalling her playing days as a teen-ager in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. ''That was the biggest thing. If you say, 'Oh, I played professional baseball,' there ain't no such thing, not in the South anyway. They didn't have any idea at all.
Brumfield is more than willing to talk about it these days, especially this weekend as 47 former players of the AAGPBL reunite for the 20th anniversary of ''A League of Their Own,'' the movie that popularized what Brumfield and more than 500 other women accomplished from 1943-54. A new Blu-ray release from Sony Pictures that includes deleted scenes from the movie will be released in mid-October to celebrate the anniversary.
The so-called ''lipstick league'' was the brainchild of Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley, who wanted to keep ballparks busy during the war if baseball was adversely affected by players being called to serve their country. The league's first tryouts were held in Chicago in the spring of 1943 and drew almost 300 women from across the United States.
Four teams from the Midwest - the Rockford Peaches, South Bend Blue Sox, Racine Belles and Kenosha Comets - were formed and played a 54-game season that year. The league also at times included the Fort Wayne Daisies, Minneapolis Millerettes, Kalamazoo Lassies, Muskegon Lassies, Grand Rapids Chicks, Peoria Redwings, Milwaukee Chicks, Chicago Colleens and Springfield Sallies.
Brazilian artist Bel Borba works on a piece of public art with duct tape with actress Debra Winger at Roosevelt Island in New York September 21, 2012. Borba, who is from Salvador in the Brazilian state of Bahia, is spending a month making public art in New York City neighborhoods.
Photo by Shannon Stapleton
J.K. Rowling's former home can be yours - if you can conjure up 2.25 million pounds ($3.7 million).
The eight-bedroom Victorian house in Edinburgh belonging to the Harry Potter author is listed for sale on the website of real estate agents Rettie.
It's described as "an exceptional detached family house standing within a large yet discreet landscaped and walled garden" in one of the city's most exclusive areas.
Rowling lived there with her husband and three children while she wrote several volumes in her seven-book adventure series about the boy wizard. Rowling, whose books have sold 450 million copies, now owns another house in the city, as well as other properties in Scotland and London.
Slovak officials rejected the overwhelming results of a popular Internet campaign to name a new pedestrian and cycling bridge near the capital after action film star Chuck Norris.
Despite 12,599 votes for the Norris name in a two-month online poll, Bratislava regional assembly decided to call the bridge spanning the Morava river and Slovakia's border with Austria the "Freedom Cycling-Bridge" in memory of people killed attempting to escape communist eastern Europe.
The assembly's choice earned only 457 votes in the online poll, where it was easily outshone by other proposed names, including "Maria Theresa" after an Austro-Hungarian empress and "the Devinska cycling bridge" in honor of a nearby village.
Slovakia, once part of the former Czechoslovakia, has a 107 km border with Austria and many people died trying to flee the communist regime before its collapse in 1989.
U.S. actors Ben Affleck (centre L) and Alan Arkin gesture upon their arrival to Hotel Maria Cristina on the first day of the 60th San Sebastian Film Festival September 21, 2012. Arkin stars in the Affleck directed film "Argo" about the Iran hostage crisis, which is part of the festival's official selection.
Photo by Vincent West
Prosecutors have charged Amanda Bynes with knowingly driving on a suspended license. It's the third court case the actress has racked up in recent months.
Bynes was charged Friday in Burbank, Calif., with two counts of driving on a suspended license. The charges stem from an incident Sunday that led to her car being impounded.
Bynes faces two other cases - a drunken driving case and a hit-and-run case involving two accidents. Bynes' driver's license was revoked in August, and a judge last week ordered her to stop driving.
The 26-year-old starred in the Nickelodeon series "All That" and the 2010 film "Easy A." She has pleaded not guilty in the DUI case.
Artist Don Featherstone, 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner and creator of the plastic pink flamingo lawn ornament, poses with his Nancy while being honored as a past recipient during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical applications.
Photo by Charles Krupa
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-The 'Pretty' One) received a chilly reception from a seniors' group on Friday as he argued that popular health and pension programs for U.S. retirees need to be overhauled to ensure their stability.
Members of the retiree group AARP booed and heckled Ryan as he laid out the Republican ticket's case for repealing President Barack Obama's healthcare law and partially privatizing the Medicare health plan.
"I had a feeling there would be mixed reactions," Ryan told the crowd.
The event in New Orleans underscored the gamble that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took on when he picked Ryan as his running mate in August.
People over age 65 are more likely to participate in elections than younger groups, and in recent elections they have become one of the most reliably Republican voting blocs. But Romney's 20-point edge among this group has eroded over the past several weeks to the point where the two candidates are effectively tied, according to Reuters/IPSOS polling data.
Ice-cream maker Matthias Muenz poses with white sausage flavoured ice-cream on a pretzel in his shop "The crazy icecream maker" (Der verrückte Eismacher) in Munich September 21, 2012. During Oktoberfest time, Muenz creates ice-cream with six different beer flavours, each with 2.5 percent volume of alcohol, traditional Bavarian white sausage and grilled chicken flavour. The white sausage ice-cream is served in a pretzel with mustard.
Photo by Michael Dalder
The image appears on T-shirts and cellphone covers, coffee mugs and wine labels. And the 80-year-old pensioner who just weeks ago was mortified by the global stir she created with her botched restoration of a fresco of Christ is now looking to get a piece of the action.
The church painting in the town of Borja was for decades a little-known piece of religious art by a minor Spanish artist. Now that Cecilia Gimenez has disfigured it, it has found a new fate as an international icon - used to sell products around the world.
The fresco depicts Christ with a crown of thorns before crucifixion, in a style known as "Ecce Homo" (Behold the Man). It stood in peaceful obscurity in the Misericordia Church sanctuary since it was painted in 1930 - until Gimenez, a longtime devotee of the work, decided it needed to be rescued from flaking caused by the damp church air.
Word of the artistic travesty spread across the world, and the solemn Ecce Homo quickly took on a less dignified identity: "Ecce Mono." Behold the Monkey.
People in national Belarusian costumes perform on stage during the Dazhynki harvest festival in the town of Gorki, some 270 km (168 miles) east of Minsk, September 21, 2012.
Photo by Vasily Fedosenko
Vivendi's Universal Music Group won European and U.S. approval for its $1.9 billion purchase of EMI's recorded music business on Friday, with the EU requiring the company to sell labels that account for about a third of the British company's revenues.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved the transaction without conditions. With the regulatory approvals, the companies are now free to close the deal.
Universal said on Friday it would sell some of EMI's most prized assets, such as the Parlophone label - home to star acts such as Coldplay and Queen - in a move which some analysts said significantly reduced the deal's attractiveness.
Nonetheless, the deal cements Universal's No.1 position in the European music industry, with a vast library of current top-selling and legendary names including Jay-Z, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Robbie Williams, Pink Floyd and The Beatles.
Artists put finishing touches on a vehicle during the Jeepney painting competition at a mall in Manila September 21, 2012. The Jeepney Arts Festival pays homage to the country's most popular mode of transport, transforming ageing vehicles into icons instead of traffic nuisances.
Photo by Romeo Ranoco
Going to the department of motor vehicles can put a frown on anyone's face, but for New Jersey residents, smiling is officially against the rules.
The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission has cracked down on drivers smiling in their driver's license photos because their smiles could interfere with new facial recognition software.
New Jersey resident Velvet McNeil told the Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday that when she went to get her license at her local New Jersey motor vehicle center, she was told she could not smile for her photo. Shocked, McNeil said she walked out of the center.
Elyse Coffey, a spokeswoman for the Motor Vehicle Commission, said that there was no law banning smiles, only a simple request that drivers not smile "as if you've just won $5 million in the lottery."
Coffey said that residents are also asked to remove glasses and head wear, unless it is for religious reasons, as well as to keep their eyes open in order for the database to operate properly.
A 2012 Ig Nobel Prize trophy is held during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical applications.
Photo by Charles Krupa
Ever wonder what Mitt Romney would look like as the star of a romantic comedy? A whimsical Tumblr provides a tiny glimpse of the possibilities.
The site, RomCom2012.tumblr.com, was originally launched in May but recently updated with fake movie posters featuring the Republican presidential candidate in some classic roles: Romney as John Cusack's boom-box-wielding Lloyd Dobler in "Say Anything"; as Cusack opposite Diane Lane in "Must Love Dogs"; and as Seth Rogen with Katherine Heigl in "Knocked Up."
Romney is even depicted as noted Obama supporter Alec Baldwin in Nancy Meyers' 2009 hit film "It's Complicated," a title that could sum up the GOP nominee's relationship with some voters.
"Two lovers. A man. His country," the Tumblr's tagline reads. "Both ambitious, likeable and apparently meant for each other, but kept apart by some complicating circumstances."
Romney is an avid film fan. In an interview on "Live! With Kelly and Michael" last week, Romney said his favorite actor is Gene Hackman, especially for his work in "The Birdcage." In the film, Hackman plays a Republican senator who opposes same-sex marriage until he has a change of heart.
Dorothy Carter, a former stage actress who starred in the adaptation of thegroundbreaking novel "Strange Fruit" on Broadway and later became an educator and a children's book author, has died after battling bladder cancer. She was 94.
Carter, born in 1918 in Kissimee, Fla., studied drama at Spelman College and later was taught by Stella Adler in New York. She made her Broadway debut in 1945 in Lillian Smith's adaptation of her novel "Strange Fruit," an interracial love story.
The show, directed by Jose Ferrer and starring Jane White and Earl Jones, closed after 60 performances but got a positive write-up by then-first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in her syndicated column.
Carter, who was black, became part of the American Negro Theater under the direction of Abe Hill and played Ruth Lawson in its 1946 Broadway production of "Walk Hard." She also appeared in Lou Peterson's "Take a Giant Step" in 1953.
After moving to Milwaukee, she enrolled in the Wisconsin State Teachers College and later earned her master's degree. She taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and became the first female African-American professor at Bank Street College of Education in New York City in 1981.
In her 80s, she wrote three children's books inspired by her childhood: "Bye, Mis' Lela", "Wilhe'mina Miles: After the Stork Night" and "Grandma's General Store - the Ark."
She is survived by her daughter, Carol Carter; a son, James Carter Jr.; and a grandson, James Yates Carter.
The Space Shuttle Endeavour flies by the Hollywood sign and Griffith Observatory as it arrives in Los Angeles on the back of a 747 en route to Los Angeles International Airport September 21, 2012.
Photo by Patrick Fallon
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