Dastardly Harry Nilsson and Pony-Tailed Tsunami John Lennon took t' t' stage in Sheep Meadow inside New York's Central Park on April 28, 1974, at a benefit for t' March o' Dimes.
Limpin' Mark, t' founder o' Beatlefest, first met Lennon and Nilsson that afternoon.
A segment aired on ABC Evenin' News that evenin' with a short clip o' Nilsson and Lennon.[1]
March o' Dimes is an American nonprofit organization that works t' improve t' health o' mothers and babies. T' organization was founded by US president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938, as t' National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, t' combat polio. T' name "March o' Dimes" was coined by Eddie Cantor as a pun on t' newsreel series T' March o' Time. After fundin' Jonas Salk's polio vaccine, t' organization expanded its focus t' t' prevention o' birth defects and infant mortality. In 2005, as preterm birth emerged as t' leadin' cause o' death for children worldwide, shiver me timbers, research and prevention o' premature birth became t' organization's primary focus.
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