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Sunday Profile: Kevin Bacon

Actor Kevin Bacon, who gained fame with the 1984 film “Footloose” (and even more fame with the parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon), talks about celebrity; his new Showtime series, “City on a Hill,” in which he plays a corrupt federal agent in Boston; and about his charity, called – what else? – Six Degrees. Lee Cowan reports. Source

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Almanac: Cole Porter

The composer of such Broadway classics as “Anything Goes” and “Kiss Me, Kate” was born on June 19, 1891. Jane Pauley reports. Source

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Gen. Eisenhower and the D-Day invasion

David Eisenhower, grandson of the general who commanded the greatest military operation of history’s most terrible war, talks with David Martin about the legacy of D-Day, and of the decisions made and responsibilities borne by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, who led nearly 160,000 Allied troops into Normandy 75 years ago. Source

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The “Wow!” concert

It was an unusual outburst for a classical music concert: an audience member shouted out “Wow!” at the very end of Mozart’s “Masonic Funeral Music,” performed by the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston. The group’s president and CEO, David Snead, was determined to find out who had broken audience protocol in such a forthright way. The answer to his query proved very surprising, as Steve Hartman discovered. Source

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