Hayworth 23.hay.0 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

Margarita Carmen Cansino, better known as Rita Hayworth, was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Spanish flamenco dancer Eduardo Cansino (Sr.) and English/Irish-American Ziegfeld girl Volga Hayworth.
Hayworth was on stage by the age of six as a member of The Cansinos, a famous family of Spanish dancers working in vaudeville. Also, her father had performed in a dancing duo with his sister, and later revived the duo with his daughter Rita as his dancing partner, performing in nightclubs in California and the Foreign Club in Tijuana, Mexico. At age sixteen, she attracted the attention of film producers as part of "The Dancing Cansinos" and was signed by Fox Studios in 1935.

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Anne Bashkiroff knows the heartache, loneliness and financial burden of Alzheimer Disease. Her dear husband, Sasha, suffered for nine years with this terrible brain and soul damaging illness. Anne learned that the family suffers along with the patient and she became commited to change the system that all too often ignores the sweeping ramifications of a long term "silent" illness. Over 13 million adults and their families suffer together with these dreadful diseases.

Many nursing homes do not want to care for Alzheimer patients (they are often difficult and disruptive). Keeping the patient at home demands the constant care of the family (relief is never at hand and the cost is enormous). Anne knew something must be changed to help everyone.

Her strength and dedication led her to help establish the Family Survival Project, a group that obtained the first legislation in the country to provide financial, legal, medical and personal assistance for low cost respite care in the home for victims of brain damage. The group's success now works as a role model for dozens of similar organization throughout the United States. Assemblyman Art Agnos, inspired by Anne, introduced the first legislation in California.

Through continuing action, Anne has opened the door for human understanding and support for the disease that is all-too-often swept away by fear.

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I understood that we were in a very serious situation, that, as a matter of fact, we were being strategically surprised; that on the battlefields and on the fronts, Syria and the Sinai, [there was] a very small part of the regular army, maybe a tenth of the army; and mobilizing the reserve service and for it to reach the borders, would take at least 24 or 48 hours... for them to only begin reaching the borders... and that the situation was very serious, and that the regular army would have to stand before enormous forces attacking it. And I understood that it was a very, very serious situation, and it would be very difficult to manage. I never thought we'd be caught off-guard like that, because the very strongly-held assumption was that we would be alerted of the war at least 48 hours in advance, and now we were being alerted [but] it would not allow us to bring our reserve service to the front before the war broke out.