-- card: 42022 from stack: in.0 -- bmap block id: 0 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 4410 -- name: -- part contents for background part 14 ----- text ----- March 29 -- part contents for background part 13 ----- text ----- In 1638, Swedish colonists settled in present-day Delaware. In 1932, a vaudeville comedian made his radio debut by saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Jack Benny talking. There will be a slight pause while you say, 'Who cares?'" In 1973, the last U.S. troops left South Vietnam, ending america's direct involvement in the Vietnam War. -- part contents for background part 16 ----- text ----- Former U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy (1916) Singer Pearl Bailey (1918) Comedian Eric Idle (1943) Actor Bud Cort (1951) Gymnast Kurt Thomas (1956) -- part contents for background part 17 ----- text ----- "You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought." --------------------------------------- Karl Kraus, Austrian essayist and poet (1874-1936)