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Time Magazine was published for the first time on March 3, 1923, featuring retired Speaker of the House, Joseph G. Cannon on the front cover. Created by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, Time was the first weekly news magazine in the United States. The magazine was originally going to be called ‘Facts’, but the owners wanted to emphasize a measure of ‘brevity’, making the magazine both fun and... Continue reading
The story of The Saturday Evening Post begins with Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette, which was first published in 1728, and then became known as The Saturday Evening Post in 1821. The modern era of The Saturday Evening Post began in 1897 when famed publisher, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, purchased the magazine for one thousand dollars. Each magazine sold for 5 cents a copy until 1942 when it was... Continue reading
Giants move to San Francisco in 1957
The New York Giants were seeking a new stadium to replace the crumbling Polo Grounds. Attendance was falling, the team was playing poorly, and Minneapolis was seriously courting them. At the same time, the Dodgers were being courted by Los Angeles and major league baseball would not allow the move unless another team located to the west coast. Dodgers'... Continue reading
WOODY ALLEN was born Allen Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935, in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 17 he legally changed his name to Heywood (Woody) Allen. Dropping out of New York University after receiving a failing grade in his filmmaking class, Allen began his career writing for television, most notably, for Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows.
Building on his ‘neurotic New Yorker’... Continue reading
Detroit won the AL pennant with a regular season record of 93-58, three games ahead of the second place Yankees. For the season, they outscored their opponents 919 to 665.
The season started out poorly for the Tigers who were 2-9 after two weeks of play and in last place at the end of April. They got red hot and went 35-10 between June 26 and August 15, 1935. They defeated the Chicago Cubs in... Continue reading
Don Drysdale won 25 games and the Cy Young Award in 1962 and, in 1968, set a record with 58.2 consecutive scoreless innings. During the streak, he pitched 6 consecutive complete game shutouts.
Considered the fastest woman ever, Wilma Rudolf won three Gold Medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. In front of 80,000 spectators, and on a blistering 110 degree day, Rudolph won the 100-meter dash in 11 seconds flat. She then won the 200-meter dash in Olympic record time, and was on the winning 400-meter relay team. She was named United Press Athlete of the Year in 1960 and, in 1961, won... Continue reading
Steve Prefontaine went to Marshfield High School in Coos Bay, Oregon, and was considered a mediocre cross country runner in his Sophomore season. He then met coach and mentor Bernard Emil Weik II and in his Junior and Senior years, he won every meet, including setting the national record for the two mile race in the Oregon state championships.
Prefontaine decided to enroll at the University of... Continue reading
Rocky Marciano was born in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1923. He was a typical American kid, playing baseball and football and dreaming of playing one professionally. He didn't take up boxing until he was drafted into the Army at the age of twenty. In 1947, he had a tryout with the Chicago Cubs as a catcher, but was let go because he couldn't make the throw from home plate to second base... Continue reading
In a takeoff of the successful movie, CBS debuted a remarkable 30 minute sitcom combining elements of comedy with a darker antiwar message. Many of the stories were based on real-life tales told by hundreds of real-life M*A*S*H surgeons, in interviewes conducted by the production team. The show centered around Alan Alda's character, Hawkeye Pierce, along with a very talented cast.
The... Continue reading
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2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey premiered in 1968 and is considered to be an epic science fiction movie. It was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) who "seems human" and has full control over their spaceship and two astronauts (Dr. Dave Bowman played by Keir Dullea and Dr. Frank Poole played by Gary Lockwood) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.