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EXPENSIVE COLLEGES (cont’d): but died before the school opened in 1957. The average starting salary for graduates is about $93,000. However, to get to graduation, annual tuition is close to $77,000. About 70% of new students are eligible for financial aid. • The University of Chicago has produced 97 Nobel Prize laureates and numerous billionaires. It was founded in 1890 with donations from the American Baptist Education Society and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller. The nearly $79,000 a year cost helps take care of their 16,000 students and another 16,000 administrative staff members. • It costs close to $70,000 a year to attend the Julliard School for the performing arts in New York City. The school has had some interesting locations since its 1905 founding. It started out in a former mansion on Fifth Avenue. The school moved five years later onto a property purchased from an insane asylum. In 1924, the school purchased the Vanderbilt family guesthouse for its graduate school. (That guesthouse now houses CBS Studio offices.) It’s not easy to get into Julliard with its 8% acceptance rate of applications for admission. You’ll recognize the names of a few of its attendees – William Hurt, Barry Manilow, Wynton Marsalis, and Itzhak Perlman. Child prodigy pianist Marvin Hamlisch was accepted into the school’s precollege division at age six. • When the University of Southern California was founded in 1880, tuition was $15 per term. (continued on next page)

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DO I NEED TO FILE A TAX RETURN THIS YEAR? Dear Savvy Senior, What are the IRS income tax filing requirements for retirees this tax season? My income dropped way down when I had to retire last year, so I’m wondering if I need to file a tax return this year. Retired Ron Dear Ron, Whether or not you are required to file a federal income tax return this year actually depends on several factors: how much you earned last year (in 2018); the source of that income; your age; and your filing status. Here’s a rundown of this tax season’s IRS tax filing requirement thresholds. For most people, this is pretty straightforward. If your 2018 gross income – which includes all taxable income, not counting your Social Security benefits, unless you are married and filing separately – was below the threshold for your filing status and age, you may not have to file. But if it’s over, you will. • Single: $12,000 ($13,600 if you’re 65 or older by Jan. 1, 2019). • Married filing jointly: $24,000 ($25,300 if you or your spouse is 65 or older; or $26,600 if you’re both over 65). • Married filing separately: $5 at any age. • Head of household: $18,000 ($19,600 if age 65 or older). • Qualifying widow(er) with dependent child: $24,000 ($25,300 if age 65 or older). To get a detailed breakdown on federal filing requirements, along with information on taxable and nontaxable income, call the IRS at 800-829-3676 and ask them to mail you a free copy of the “Tax Guide for Seniors” (publication 554) or see IRS.gov/pub/irs-pdf/ p554.pdf. Check Here Too There are, however, some other financial situations that can require you to file a tax return, even if your gross income falls below the IRS filing requirements. For example, if you earned more than $400 from selfemployment in 2018, owe any special taxes like an alternative minimum tax, or get premium tax credits because you, your spouse or a dependent is enrolled in a Health Insurance Marketplace (Obamacare) plan, you’ll need to file. You’ll also need to file if you’re receiving Social Security benefits, and one-half of your benefits plus your other gross income and any tax-exempt interest exceeds $25,000, or $32,000 if you’re married and filing jointly.

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EXPENSIVE COLLEGES (cont’d): That’s a far cry from the close to $60,000 a student can expect these days. • It’s not an easy task to get into New York City’s Columbia University. Their acceptance rate is just 5.5%, one of the nation’s most selective colleges. Columbia is ranked the third best university in the United States behind Princeton and Harvard. Located in Upper Manhattan, the university was established in 1754, before the Revolutionary War. Three presidents, 10 Supreme Court justices, 96 Nobel Prize winners, 38 living billionaires, and 125 Pulitzer Prize winners are alumni of Columbia. Those planning to attend should expect to shell out over $74,000 a year. • Located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Bard College was founded in 1860 by the grandson of the founder of Columbia University’s medical school, who was also private physician to George Washington. The liberal arts college boasts that 98% of their classes have less than 25 students, a 10:1 ratio. It costs $72,400 a year for the privilege of attending this college. • The state of Massachusetts has at least 24 colleges that cost more than $60,000 a year to attend, with several upwards of $70,000. Boston College charges $69,293 a year for tuition and board. Seventy members of Congress have graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, a college that now has a cost of $70,000 annually. The women’s liberal arts Smith College, which opened in 1875, has a cost of over $72,000, while Tufts College’s price tag is $73,500. Amherst College was established as a men’s college in 1821, and remained so until 1975. Its annual rate is $77,000. That’s about the average rate at Harvard as well.

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To figure all this out, the IRS offers an interactive tax assistant tool on their website that asks a series of questions that will help you determine if you’re required to file, or if you should file because you’re due a refund. It takes less than 15 minutes to complete. You can access this tool at IRS.gov/filing – click on “Do I Need to File?” Or, you can get assistance over the phone by calling the IRS helpline at 800-8291040. You can also get face-to-face help at a Taxpayer Assistance Center. See IRS.gov/localcontacts or call 800-829-1040 to locate a center near you. Check Your State Even if you’re not required to file a federal tax return this year, don’t assume that you’re also excused from filing state income taxes. The rules for your state might be very different. Check with your state tax agency before concluding that you’re entirely in the clear. For links to state tax agencies see Taxadmin. org/state-tax-agencies. Tax Preparation Help If you find that you do need to file a tax return this year, you can get help through the Tax Counseling for the Elderly (or TCE) program. Sponsored by the IRS, TEC provides free tax preparation and counseling to (continued in next column)

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While working in Vienna and seeing the brutality, the seed was planted in her mind to make a difference. In her words, “…I would do anything to make things more difficult for their rotten party… My hatred of the Nazis was very, very deep.” • She married a wealthy French industrialist in 1939, and as the war raged in France with the German invasion, she became an ambulance driver. • In 1940, Nancy became part of the French Resistance as a courier. Her wealth and social standing were the perfect cover as she helped create an escape network for prisoners of war, officers, airmen, and refugees across the mountains into Spain, using money contributed by her husband Henri Fiocca. The Fiocca family chalet in the Alps served as a safe house during the journeys. (continued on next page)

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Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie founded Carnegie Technical School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1900 as a vocational training school for the working class. It added fouryear degrees in 1912 and became the Carnegie Institute of Technology. The merger with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research occurred in 1967. Known especially for its science and technology programs, it costs about $73,000 a year to attend Carnegie-Mellon.

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NANCY WAKE (cont’d): • By the end of 1942, Nancy was the Gestapo’s most wanted person with a 5-million-franc reward offered for her capture. Having eluded the Gestapo scores of times, the German military called her “the white mouse.” Her phone had been tapped and all of her mail was intercepted. • It became apparent in 1943 that Nancy would have to flee France. Leaving her husband behind, she boarded a train, but was arrested in Toulouse. Within four days she had been released and was on her way to crossing into Spain. Once in England, she became a member of the British Special Operations Executive, working with the French Resistance. The group was instrumental in organizing attacks on bridges, railroads, and German convoy, as well as destroying one of the Gestapo headquarters. • Shortly before D-Day, at age 31, Nancy parachuted into France to coordinate drops of weapons and ammunition in preparation. At one point, she had to ride a bicycle 250 miles (402 km) in 72 hours to deliver a secret wireless code. • After the war ended, Nancy learned that, in 1943, shortly after her escape to England, her husband had been arrested, tortured, and executed by the Germans for refusing to betray her whereabouts, something for which she blamed herself for the remainder of her life. • She had saved the lives of hundreds of Allied soldiers and airmen and became the most decorated woman of World War II. She returned to London to work for the British Intelligence Department. In 1960, she married a former POW, and the couple moved to Australia, where she resided until her death in 2011 at the age of 98.

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1. Barbara Bush, Gloria Steinem, and Sylvia Plath all graduated from what prestigious women’s college? 2. It will cost $75,000 a year to attend what university in New Orleans? 3. Woodrow Wilson, JFK, Brooke Shields, and Lee Iacocca are graduates from what university? 4. What college includes alumni of Madeleine Albright, Hillary Clinton, Diane Sawyer and Ali McGraw? 5. What musical group wrote a 1973 song about a drug bust while they were students at Bard College?

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* On Feb. 28, 1844, President John Tyler cruises the Potomac with 400 others aboard the U.S. Navy’s new steam frigate USS Princeton. The Princeton carried a new 12-inch, 27,000-pound cannon called the Peacemaker. During a test firing, the cannon exploded, killing several aboard, including two members of Tyler’s cabinet. * On March 3, 1875, the first indoor game of ice hockey is played in Quebec. Prior to the move indoors, ice hockey was a casual outdoor game, with no rules regarding the number of players per side. For the 1875 Montreal game, the ball was replaced with a wooden disc, now known as a puck. * On March 2, 1929, The Jones Act, the last gasp of the Prohibition, is passed by Congress. The act strengthened the federal penalties for bootlegging. * On Feb. 27, 1936, Shirley Temple receives a new contract from 20th Century Fox that will pay the 7-year-old star $50,000 per film, equal to $910,264.49 in today’s dollars. The studio also altered her birth certificate, making it appear that she was a year younger. * On Feb. 26, 1949, from Carswell AFB in Texas, the Lucky Lady II, a B-50 Superfortress, takes off on the first nonstop round-the-world flight. The Lucky Lady II was refueled four times in the air and returned after 94 hours. * On Feb. 25, 1964, Cassius Clay shocks the oddsmakers by dethroning world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round technical knockout. Later that year, Clay took the Muslim name of Muhammad Ali. * On March 1, 1971, a bomb explodes in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., destroying a bathroom and barber shop but injuring no one. A group calling itself the “Weather Underground” claimed credit for the bombing, done in protest of the ongoing U.S.supported Laos invasion. (c) 2019 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved

There are some unusual observances in the world, and perhaps one of the strangest is Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day on February 23. It’s time for Tidbits readers to “bone” up on these facts about doggie treats! • Believe it or not, the history of dog biscuits dates back to the era of the Roman Empire. Dogs were given “bad bread,” that which was considered low quality and unfit for human consumption. Bread for dogs was called “parruna,” and was made from bran. This was the practice until the 1800s, when a dog food made of vegetables mixed with grain came onto the scene. • A Brit by the name of “Mr. Smith” sold dogbiscuit food in the area of Maidenhead in 1827. It consisted of oats, potatoes, carrots, and parsnips, and according to an 1828 publication, the factory was producing sales of five tons a week. • In 1860, an Ohio electrician traveled to London to sell his new invention, lightning rods. Upon landing in London, as James Spratt stood along the harbor, he observed several mongrel dogs eating discarded hardtack, the cheap, dry, tough biscuits that sailors ate while on long sea voyages. Spratt was inspired to develop a biscuit for dogs, before long he had patented his mixture of grains, beetroot, vegetables, and gelatinous beef parts and beef blood, and was marketing as “Spratt’s Meat Fibrine Dog Cakes.” • Others jumped on the bandwagon quickly, including Dr. A.C. Daniels’ Medicated Dog Bread, and in 1871, advertisements for Slater’s Meat Biscuit for Dogs bragged that this product contained “vegetable substances and 25% of prepared meat products.” They claimed that their biscuits would “give dogs endurance” and (continued on next page)

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1. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 2. The 2008-09 Seattle Mariners. 3. Carolina’s Greg Olsen (2014-16), 4. It was against Pennsylvania in 1979. 5. Seven times, with a high of 58 goals in 1968-69, 6. Bill Koch won a silver in the 30 km in 1976, 7. He won the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in 2013.

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wherever your imagination says they belong. You might add a few plastic trinkets or an old silk flower or two if the space seems right. 4) Punch a hole in the top of the house. Loop a piece of wire or twine through the hole and hang the house from a tree branch or a fence post. You’re done! Watch as birds discover the new abode. “The grandkids are coming!” tip: Young grandchildren might enjoy making a treat for the birds. Take a pine cone, roll it around in peanut butter until it’s completely covered, then roll it once more in birdseed. Tie a string around it and hang it from a tree branch. *** Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To find more of her creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday.com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.” (c) 2019 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Synd.

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