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Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Carol Lawrence sing "Riding High."
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Lange documented those struggling with the Great Depression and sharecropping system.
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Dorothea Lange was hired to document the internment process during World War II.
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A photo exhibit in 2012 featured former internees photographed by Dorothea Lange in 1942.
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Watch an excerpt of Le Clercq and partner performing Jerome Robbin's love pas de deux.
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Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) co-founded The Paris Review in 1953.
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Plimpton shaped the prestigious literary magazine with the flair of a kindly ringmaster.
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In this excerpt, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recalls his father's admiration for Plimpton.
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Journalist George Plimpton did not show early promise when he failed at Exeter Academy.
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Documentary filmmaker Ric Burns describes the surprise of George Plimpton's death.
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Plimpton published McInerney's first story ever in The Paris Review in 1982.
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The fate of the Amazon rainforest turned on an unlikely environmental hero: Chico Mendes.
