[Adela St. Johns recounts her career, and Dr. Robert Butler talks about longevity. On Over Easy with Hugh Downs].

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Writer Adela Rogers St. Johns talks about her career and old age. She says that the spirit and behavior of the individual are the biggest factor in living a long time. The Director of the National Institute on Aging talks about living longer based on genetics in addition to the efforts of the indivi...

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Corporate Author:	Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Other Authors:	St. Johns, Adela Rogers (Interviewee) Butler, Robert N., 1927-2010 (Interviewee) Downs, Hugh (Interviewer)
Language:	English
Published:	[1979]
Subjects:	St. Johns, Adela Rogers > Interviews. Authors, American > 20th century > Interviews. Butler, Robert N., > 1927-2010 > Interviews. National Institute on Aging. St. Johns, Adela Rogers. Longevity. Interviews. Nonfiction television programs. Sound recordings.
Genre:	Interviews. Nonfiction television programs. Sound recordings.
Physical Description:	1 electronic audio file (10 min., 21 sec.) : digital, WAV file.
Format:	Audio Software

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Published: 1983

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (18 min., 38 sec.) : digital, WAV file.

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[Helen Forrest, vocalist of the Benny Goodman band and other 40's and 50's big bands, talks about trumpeter Harry James and her autobiography]

Published: 1983

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (9 min., 41 sec.) : digital, WAV file.

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[Jimmy Breslin tells anecdotes about journalism and sport, and tells what is wrong with children, including his own]

Published: 1983

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (10 min.) : digital, WAV file.

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[Joseph Campbell talks about myths and rituals in various cultures and about the liberating experience of leaving the church]

Published: 1983

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (2 min., 44 sec.) : digital, WAV file.

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[Lena Horne decries the lack of passion in the younger generation, and talks about her early career and marriage]

Published: 1983

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (9 min., 32 sec.) : digital, WAV file.

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[Milton Berle talks about giving a comic eulogy for George Jessel]

Published: 1983

Physical Description: 1 audio file (3 min., 10 sec.)

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[Theodore White talks about his future plans and projects]

Published: 1983

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (1 min., 43 sec.) : digital, WAV file.

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[Abram Sachar talks about the contribution of Mohammed and of the syncretic fusions of Judaism and Christianity into Islam]

Published: 1982

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (6 min., 22 sec.) : digital, WAV file.

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[Malcolm Cowley talks about his life in criticism and the process of aging]

Published: 1982

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (13 min., 43 sec.) : digital, WAV file.

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[Norbert Gingold interviewed about the San Francisco Children's Opera Company, talks about working with Kurt Weill in Vienna]

Published: 1982

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (8 min., 22 sec.) : digital, WAV file.

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[Broderick Crawford discusses his professional and private life, his parents and his grandparents]

Published: 1981

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (6 min., 21 sec.) : digital, WAV file.

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[Geraldine Fitzgerald talks about studying voice at age 55 and becoming a professional singer]

Published: 1981

Physical Description: 1 audio file (7 min., 33 sec.)

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[Gloria Swanson talks about the various careers she has had and about her interest in world hunger]

Published: 1981

Physical Description: 1 audio file (10 min., 31 sec.)

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[Isaac Bashevis Singer tells why literature is richer than history, and speculates about free will]

Published: 1981

Physical Description: 1 audio file (6 min., 13 sec.)

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[James Van Derzee interview about his photography career in Harlem, by Hugh Downs on Over Easy].

Published: 1981

Physical Description: 1 audio file (2 min., 30 sec.)

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[Larry Adler talks about his self-imposed exile in England during the McCarthy years, and about the aging process]

Authors: Adler, Larry
Published: 1981

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (5 min., 43 sec.) : digital, WAV file.

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[Maggie Kuhn and Claude Pepper talk about gain and setbacks for senior citizens in the past decade]

Published: 1981

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (21 min., 17 sec.) : digital, WAV file.

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[Maxine Sullivan talks about her life as a neighborhood volunteer with a program called The house that jazz built, in the South Bronx]

Published: 1981

Physical Description: 1 audio file (5 min., 27 sec.)

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Published: 1981

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (4 min., 24 sec.) : digital, WAV file.

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Published: 1981

Physical Description: 1 electronic audio file (6 min., 42 sec.) : digital, WAV file.

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