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'I'm Thankful For…'
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16558 |
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LIFE
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11 / 1989 |
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Jeanne Viner Bell
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Former President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, send this message: "We are thankful for our family, friends, and good health. We are thankful for the opportunity to have served the American people. And we are thankful to be Americans."
Norman Cousins, the editor of Saturday Review for thirty-five years and author of twenty-five books, is now adjunct professor of medicine at UCLA. He writes: "My list of things to be thankful for would probably qualify, in terms of length, for the Guinness Book of Records. Close to the top of the list, however, is the fact that I am grateful for having been born a human being. It was just the sheerest luck that I did not come into this world as a fruit fly, or a groundhog, or a virus, or any one of the more than two billion other creatures that now inhabit this planet. Only the luck of the draw enabled me to be born into the human species, a form of life that possesses the ability to contemplate, anticipate, create, innovate. Added to all these endowments is free will."
J.W. Kaempfer, Jr., a Washington, D.C., investment builder, is well-known for making art an integral part of all the structures built by the firm that bears his name. "Of the many things for which I am grateful," he says, "first and foremost is my daughter, Annie."
Comic Jackie Manson, whose one-man show The World According to Me is receiving rave reviews, quips, "I'm thankful I didn't continue on my path as a rabbi, because I'd be making $112.50 a week. I'm thankful I'm not a girl, because I wouldn't be having so much fun with the women I meet. I'm thankful that I'm a hit as a comedian, because other jobs would require me to get up at six in the morning, and my day doesn't start until nightfall. (The only reason to get up at six is if there is an earthquake of an invasion.) And I'm thankful I had to answer only on question, because this is as much comedy as I do without getting paid for it."
Julian Scheer is senior vice president for corporate affairs at the LTV Corporation. From 1962 to 1971--during the height of the U.S., space exploration program--Scheer was in charge of public affairs for NASA. "Last July was the twentieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing," he recalls. "I am most thankful for the vision that inspired that remarkable effort and for the many people who worked together to make it one of mankind's most unforgettable adventures."
Lindy (Mrs. Hale) Boggs, who represent Louisiana in the U.S. Congress, is "most thankful for the thoughtful concern and affectionate attention that my children and grandchildren shower upon me."
Actress Deborah Raffin, who also produces Dove Books on Tape in partnership with her husband, Michael Viner, says, "I have so much to be thankful for. My life has been so full--with love, good health, a sense of productivity and fulfilling work. I'm grateful that my dual careers have given me opportunities to be involved in projects that may have brought pleasure or insights to other. But, most of all, I am blessed with a very special, loving husband."
Roosevelt (Rosey) Grier is well-known as an actor, singer, and songwriter. Formerly a football star with the New York Giants and the Los Angeles Rams, he now is a minister serving inner cities. "I am most
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