Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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CBS said it will donate the bow tie that
Charles Osgood wears Sunday as he hosts his final edition of Sunday Morning to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The 83-year-old newsman is stepping down after 22 years as anchor of the leisurely paced Sunday Morning, which usually dominates the news ratings on that day. CBS will devote most of the last broadcast to honoring Osgood’s career. The bookish, poetry-reciting newsman is only the second host of the show since its start in 1979; Charles Kuralt was the first. CBS has yet to name Osgood’s successor.
Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs is donating $1 million to Howard University, where he once was a student. The rapper and music mogul made the announcement alongside Howard President Wayne Frederick at his Bad Boy Records reunion tour show Thursday night in Washington, D.C., home of the historically black college. Howard University said the money will go toward creating a Sean Combs Scholarship Fund, which will award money to undergraduate business majors with a financial need. The school also said recipients will get an internship with one of Combs’ companies and mentoring through Combs Enterprises. Combs spent two years at Howard before dropping out in 1990. He received an honorary doctorate and was commencement speaker in 2014.
Terry Jones, one of the founding members of the Monty Python comedy troupe, has been diagnosed with dementia. In a statement released by Britain’s film academy, a representative said the 74-year-old has primary progressive aphasia, which erodes the ability to use language. As a result, Jones can no longer give interviews. News of Jones’ illness came in a statement announcing he is to receive an award for outstanding contribution to film and television from the academy’s Welsh branch. In the late 1960s Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and the late Graham Chapman formed the surreal and anarchic Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Jones directed the Python films Life Of Brian and Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life.