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Notes

• "The now defunct newspaper, PM" (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, PM stood for "Picture Magazine," since it borrowed so many pictures from other newsmagazines. The newspaper began in 1940 and was published until 1948 when it was replaced by the New York Star.

• "A Parke-Bernet Auction" (80) - Parke-Bernet is the United States's largest fine-arts auctioneer, purchased by Sotheby's in 1964.

• William Randolph Hearst (80) - An American newspaper magnate who invented "yellow journalism" and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.

• Modern Library (80) - A division of Randolph House Publishers. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as "The Modern Library of the World's Best Books."

• Metropolitan Museum (80) - One of the world's largest and most important art museums, located in Manhattan, New York.

• Waring mixer (80) - Waring is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.

• Hausfrau (80) - Translated from German to English, "housewife."

• Outré (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.

• Terrapin (81) - An amphibious reptile turtle that can live in the water and on land.

• "Nero-ish novelties" (81) - Nero was the fifth and last emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Rome.

• Pomegranates and persimmons (81) - The Pomegranate, or Punica granatum, is a species of fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree. Holly uses the fruit in her roasted pheasant. The persimmon, meaning "dry fruit," is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus Diospyros.

• Linguaphone records (81) - Founded in 1901, Linguaphone is a company that helps people learn foreign languages, especially through self-learning courses.

• Nehru (82) - An important leader of the Indian Independence Movement and the Indian National Congress. Nehru became the first Prime Minister of India when the country won its independence on August 15, 1947.

• Wendell Willkie (83) - A lawyer and the Republican nominee in the 1940 presidential election against Franklin D. Roosevelt.

• Garbo (83) - Greta Garbo was a Swedish actress who was highly successful in silent films, as well as in those with sound.

• Fado (83) - A music genre believed to have originated in Portugal in the 1820s. The genre is characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about the sea or the life of the poor.

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