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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
Jeanne Viner Bell is president of the American Newswomen's
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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
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