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Amazing. But he had to live with that for 96 years too.

Have I ever mentioned "no respect"? Hmmm? Well?

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"I am depressed."

Westinghouse Appliance Ad - February 1943 1940: U-boats sink seven neutral ships. 1942: Late in the afternoon after an unsuccessful Italian torpedo-aircraft attack, Admiral Iachino's squadron engages the British convoy. This protected itself with a smokescreen, but the cruiser HMS Cleopatra was damaged. Admiral Philip Vian, commanding the British escorts, now sent his destroyers in a torpedo attack on the Italian battleship Littorio. However, by now it was getting dark and so Admiral Iachino turned away from the British convoy and sailed for home. June Haver 1942: A Polish newspaper editor is beheaded for listening to the BBC, as German terror continues in Poland. 1942: Japanese aircraft attack Darwin. June Haver 1943: German troops recapture Belgorod. 1943: Newly built gas chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz. June Haver 1944: Alexander halts the frontal attacks on Cassino. 1944: British tanks rout a Japanese tank force at Tamu in India. June Haver 1945: The U.S. First Army's bridgehead at Remagen is now 30 miles long. Units of the US Third Army cross the Rhine at Oppenheim south of Mainz against minimal German resistance. 1945: The Japanese, facing food shortages at home and among their troops, launch a 60,000-man offensive to seize the wheat crop in central China near Hankow. June Haver *June Haver was born on June 10, 1926, in Rock Island, Illinois, with the birth name of June Stovenour. Her parents divorced at an early age and she was adopted by Bert Haver, her stepfather. Her mother and new father moved to Cincinnati, where she appeared on the stage for the first time at the age of six in a local theater production of "Midnight in a Toyshop". Very soon after, June was winning musical contests around the Queen City. By 1936, little June and her mother had returned to the city of her birth, after a film screen test the year before. It was here that she blossomed even further with her singing, appearing on local radio. Later, while touring with various musical bands, June and her mother found their way to sunny California, in the entertainment mecca of Los Angeles. While in high school, she played in various secondary productions. In 1942, at the age of 16, June joined Fox Studios as a fringe actress. Dropped because the studio thought she was too young, they signed her the following year to appear in "The Gang's All Here" (1943). It was an uncredited part, but a start in the film world, nonetheless. Unless one looked hard, she would have been easy to miss in the film. Her next one with Fox was in 1944's "Home in Indiana" (1944). But it was her next film where she was able to showcase her acting talent in "Irish Eyes Are Smiling" (1944). In 1945, she appeared in "Where Do We Go from Here?" (1945) with her future husband, Fred MacMurray, who she wed in 1954. It was the only film the two of them would be in together. In 1946, at the age of 20, June got top billing for the first time in "Three Little Girls in Blue" (1946). Her only other film that year was "Wake Up and Dream" (1946). After only one film in 1947, June resurfaced the next year in the utterly forgettable "Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!" (1948). This was one of the starting vehicle's for a rising talent named Marilyn Monroe. In 1949, June was in two productions. They were "Look for the Silver Lining" (1949) and "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" (1949). By now, it was obvious that she was being groomed to take over the Fox throne held by Betty Grable. It was not to be, because June was about to leave films, altogether. The filming of 1953's "The Girl Next Door" (1953) proved to be her last silver screen appearance. She had announced, the year before, that she would become a nun after her contract ran out. She had been engaged to studio dentist, John Duzik when he died unexpectedly from complications from surgery. Shortly afterward, in February of 1953, true to her word, she joined a convent in Xavier, Kansas with the intention of becoming a nun. Was happy there until a serious illness forced her to leave and return to California in September 1953. Although she had planned to return to the convent after her recovery, she never did. It was after she left the convent that she was seen with Fred MacMurray. After they were wed, the couple adopted twin girls. June's last foray into the glare of the camera lights was when she played herself in the television production of "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" (1957). She died of respiratory failure in Brentwood, California on July 6, 2005. Trivia: Measurements: 34-23-35 Her sisters followed her to Hollywood and served as her stand-ins, while her mother was Haver's personal secretary. First husband, Jimmy Zito, was a trumpeter whom she met while performing as a teenage "big band" singer. The marriage lasted barely a year (1947-1948). Nicknamed the "pocket Grable," she was making $3,500 a week at 20th Century Fox when she said goodbye to it all and became a novice nun in the Sisters of Charity convent. In 1996 she sold her and her late husband's 1,500-acre Healdsburg ranch to the Gallo family. She maintained a home in Brentwood. She died in her Brentwood estate in 2005.

She was also a Hollywood dancer, college professor, Amazonian explorer, award-winning photographer, and loving mother. They don't make 'em like her anymore. RIP Marine.

My oh my. And I bitch about the little things about life. This sure puts it in perspective doesn't it? Prayers to her and the child of that fine Marine. God Bless that Marine for his ultimate sacrifice. I do so appreciate it. Even though these words are not enough. Thank you Cpl. Porto, thank you.

You're a sick, sick man Staggers. I like sick.

Let's hope not. Morning. Snow from Friday night/Saturday morning is mostly gone. Mostly sunny and 46F today. How 'bout dem Iowa Hawkeyes! Congrats to the Hawk wrestling team winning their third straight NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship, with 5 wrestlers making it to the finals and 3 won Individual Championships, two from here in Marion/Cedar Rapids (LinnMar High School). The Hawkeyes had eight All-Americans and won the school’s 23rd NCAA title. They posted a 39-13 record over the course of the whole tournament, tallying 134½ points. Cornell was second with 90. Iowa State finished third with 75 points and crowning 2 individual Champions. Congrats to the University of Northern Iowa Panthers for knocking off the Kansas Jayhawks, 69-67, many prognosticators favorite to win the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, last night to continue on to the "Sweet Sixteen" next week.

Wartime North American Aviation Ad 1940: Paul Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France, with Edouard Daladier being made Minister of Defence and War. 1941: The last Italian post in East Libya, North Africa, falls to the British. Arlene Dahl 1942: In a repeat of Force H's mission on the 7th March 1942. Sixteen more Spitfires are delivered to Malta. The Axis, now aware of the large British supply convoy sailing towards Malta, dispatch Admiral Iachino from Taranto with the Battleship Littorio and 4 destroyers. Admiral Parona also sets sail from Messina with 3 cruisers and 4 destroyers. 1943: Hitler breaks his four-month silence with a Hero's Day speech in Berlin. He admits to his audience that the German army has lost nearly half a million men in the Soviet campaign, but he assures the crowd that the Russian front is now "stable." Arlene Dahl 1945: The US 8th Air Force launches a major attack (650 bombers) against Hamburg. 1945: Units of the U.S. First Army advances from the Remagen bridgehead toward Siegburg. Arlene Dahl 1945: The Russians captures Stuhlweissenburg in Hungary. Arlene Dahl *Dahl was born on August 11, 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the daughter of Idelle (née Swan) and Rudolph S. Dahl, a Ford motor dealer and executive. She is of Norwegian descent. After graduating from Washburn High School, she held various jobs, including performing in a local drama group and briefly working as a model for department stores. Dahl's mother was involved in the theater. As a child she took elocution and dancing lessons and acted in local amateur theater. She was active in theatrical events at Margaret Fuller Elementary School, Ramsey Junior High School and Washburn Senior High School. Dahl briefly attended the University of Minnesota. Dahl was voted the Rheingold Beer Girl of 1946. The Rheingold ad campaign was one of the most famous campaigns of one of the most popular beers in New York from the 1940s through the 1950s. There was a Miss Rheingold contest each year, and by the early 1950s, more than 25 million votes were cast annually. The winner received a cash payment as well as a modeling contract and many other opportunities. The first winner, Jinx Falkenburg, had a long career on radio. Other winners were Tippi Hedren, Hope Lange and Grace Kelly. She began her acting career in 1947. She reached the peak of her popularity and success in the 1950s. Some of her best films include: "Reign of Terror" (1949), "Three Little Words" (1950), "Woman's World" (1954), "Slightly Scarlet" (1956), and "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1959). Dahl met actor Lex Barker in the early 1950s, and on April 16, 1951, Dahl and Barker wed. A year later she and Barker divorced, and Dahl would go on to marry another matinee idol, Fernando Lamas. Barker went on to marry Lana Turner. In 1958 Dahl and Lamas had their only son, Lorenzo Lamas. Shortly after giving birth to Lorenzo, Dahl slowed and eventually ended her career as an actress, although she still appeared in movies and on television occasionally. Dahl would go on to work as a beauty columnist and as a writer. Dahl and Lamas divorced in 1960, and Dahl later remarried. Aside from Lorenzo Lamas, Dahl has two other children: a daughter Christina (born August 3, 1961) by third husband Christian R. Holmes, and a second son, Rousevelle Andreas (born December 8, 1970), by her fifth husband Rousevelle W. Schaum. She has 6 grandchildren and divides her time between New York City and West Palm Beach, Florida. Arlene Dahl was both a mystery guest and a panelist on the TV Game show "What's My Line". She appeared on the ABC television network's soap opera "One Life to Live" as Lucinda Schenck Wilson from 1981 to 1984. Lucinda was planned to be a short-termed role, but she was later offered a one-year contract to appear on the show. The last film in which she appeared, which followed a hiatus of more than 20 years, was the 1991 film, "Night of the Warrior", which starred her son, Lorenzo Lamas.

Morning. Spring officially begins today at 12:32 pm CST. Of course we received 3 inches of snow overnight. But it should be all gone by tomorrow. High of 36F today.

Electric Companies Ad - December 1943 1940: The British Royal Air Force conducts an all-night air raid on the Nazi airbase at Sylt, Germany. 1941: The Berbera force and elements of the 11th African Division meet at Hargeisa inside British Somaliland. 1941: Four Yugoslav ministers resign rather than accept German terms. *Dorothy Lamour 1942: About 1000 schoolteachers are arrested in Norway. 1942: The Red Army offensive at Kerch in the Crimea is defeated with heavy losses to the Russians. Dorothy Lamour 1942: In what was to become known as the 2nd Battle of Sirte, 4 freighters, escorted by 3 cruisers, 1 anti-aircraft cruiser and 17 destroyers leave Alexandria bound for Malta. This force would later be strengthened by the cruiser Penelope and a destroyer from Force K. 1942: Kesselring launches an intensified air offensive against Malta, which by the end of March had racked up 4,927 sorties for the Luftwaffe, as opposed to 2.497 during February. Dorothy Lamour 1942: Japanese troops, reinforced by the 18th and 56th Division which had arrived by sea at Rangoon a few days earlier, attack the 6th Chinese Army near Toungoo in Burma. 1943: The Eighth Army continues its attacks against the Mareth line in southern Tunisia. Dorothy Lamour 1944: The Russians recapture Vinnitsa in the Ukraine, the site of Hitler's Headquarters during in 1943. 1945: The U.S. Seventh Army takes Saarbrücken. Dorothy Lamour 1945: German troops of Army Group Weichsel evacuate their bridgehead across the Oder at Stettin. The Russians capture Braunsberg, 40 miles South of Königsberg. 1945: The British 19th Indian Division completes the capture of Mandalay. Dorothy Lamour *Dorothy Lamour was born with the birth name of Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton on December 10, 1914, in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was a beautiful child who turned heads as a teenager with her long dark hair. However, her dream was to become a professional singer not actress. After she won a beauty contest as Miss New Orleans in 1931, she headed to Chicago to find her work as a singer. For a time, Dorothy worked as an elevator operator in a department store before going on to become a vocalist in the Herbie Kay band. Kay became her first husband in 1935, but the marriage only lasted four years. In addition to the band, Dorothy also sang on a Chicago radio program. Besides Kay, she performed with Rudy Vallee and Eddie Duchin. 1933 found Dorothy in Hollywood where she landed an uncredited bit part as a chorus girl in the musical "Footlight Parade" (1933). She didn't appear in films again until 1936 when she landed a part as a coed in "College Holiday" (1936). Later in 1936, Dorothy got the part of Ulah in "The Jungle Princess" (1936) produced by E. Lloyd Sheldon and filmed at Paramount. This film was a tremendous moneymaker as Dorothy stole the show in her wrap-around sarong. Dorothy became an instant star as the child of nature/female Tarzan, raised with a pet tiger among the tropical natives. Ray Milland starred opposite her as the man from civilization who woos and wins her. The scene where Milland is trying to teach her the word kiss is touching yet humorous. When he kisses her and tells her that is a kiss she runs away. She went on to play similar parts in the sarong in productions including "The Hurricane" (1937), "Typhoon" (1940), "Beyond the Blue Horizon" (1942) and her final big-screen sarong feature, "Donovan's Reef" (1963). Although Dorothy actually only wore a sarong in six of her 59 pictures, it defined her career. The sarong stayed with her in the Bob Hope / Bing Crosby "Road" pictures for Paramount. The trio starred in "Road to Singapore" (1940), "Road to Zanzibar" (1941), "Road to Morocco" (1942), "Road to Utopia" (1946) and "Road to Bali" (1952). A final "Road" picture, "Road to the Fountain of Youth" was in the works in 1977, until Bing Crosby's sudden death. The final completed "Road" picture, "The Road to Hong Kong" (1962), had Hope and Crosby in their usual roles, but no Dorothy this time - Joan Collins had the female lead in it. Dorothy was a great actress with roles in "Disputed Passage" (1939), "Dixie" (1943) and "On Our Merry Way" (1948). She could show great range in both comic and dramatic roles. After making three films in 1949, her career began to trail off. She only made ten films between 1951 and 1987. That last one was "Creepshow 2" (1987) where she played a housewife who gets murdered, a long way from the "Road" pictures and movies such as "Johnny Apollo" (1940) and "A Medal for Benny" (1945). During World War II, she toured the country, selling in excess of $300 million worth of war bonds. Lamour's good humor and lack of pretension allowed her to have a remarkably long career in show business for someone best known as a glamour girl. She was a popular draw on the dinner theatre circuit of the 1970s. In the 1960s and 1970s, she lived with her longtime husband William Ross Howard III (whom she married in 1943), in the Baltimore suburb of Towson, Maryland. He died in 1978. Lamour published her autobiography "My Side of the Road" in 1980, revived her nightclub act, and performed in plays and television shows such as "Hart to Hart", "Crazy Like a Fox", and "Murder, She Wrote". During the 1990s, she made only a handful of professional appearances but she remained a popular interview subject for publications and TV talk and news programs. In 1995, the musical "Swinging on a Star", a revue of songs written by Johnny Burke opened on Broadway and ran for three months; Lamour was credited as a "special advisor". Burke wrote many of the most famous "Road to..." movie songs as well as the score to Lamour's "And the Angels Sing". The musical was nominated for the Best Musical Tony Award and the actress playing "Dorothy Lamour" in the Road movie segment, Kathy Fitzgerald, was also nominated. Lamour died on September 22, 1996 at her home in North Hollywood, California at the age of 81 from a heart attack.

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Daniel Boone TV Show Theme Song & Video... Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen sing "Farewell" in The Alamo... Fess Parker - The Ballad of Davy Crockett... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw4xNGHxaJw

Morning. Sorry that you're having a touch of insomnia Stans. I have that problem often. Our nice Spring-like weather is kaput starting this afternoon. High temp of only 47F today will probably come in the late morning, and then fall this afternoon. The chance of rain should hold off until later today. As temperatures fall, a quick transition to snow is quite possible, even as early as 6pm or so in spots. 1 - 3 inches of snow possible through Saturday morning. Cold all weekend...of course.

Goodyear Chemigum Ad - February 1943 1940: The RAF retaliates against the Luftwaffe’s bombing of Scapa Flow, by attacking the German seaplane base at Hornum on the island of Sylt with 50 bombers. Later photo reconnaissance reveals little damage to the target. 1941: Churchill forms the 'Battle of the Atlantic' committee in order to afford the highest level of co-ordination against the U-boat menace. 1941: German Naval staff complain to the Italians about their lack of effort to intercept British convoys to Greece. **Rita Johnson 1942: An offensive by Army Group North cuts off the Soviet 2nd Shock Army, commanded by General Vlasov, in a salient between Novgorod and Gruzino. Operation 'Munich' is launched. Joined by a new air detachment, German troops attack partisan bases around Yelnya and Dorogobuzh. Operation 'Bamberg' kicks off near Bobruisk, with SS Police troops attacking Russian villages. The German security forces burn many villages and kill 3,500 people, which only infuriate the Russian civilians more, which encourages many of them join the partisans, making the whole exercise very counter-productive. The 3rd Panzer Army diaries says "There are indications that the partisan movement in the region of Velikiye Luki, Vitebsk, Rudnya, Velizh, is now being organised on a large scale. The fighting strength of the partisans hitherto active, is being bolstered by individual units of regular red army troops." 1942: General Bill Slim is appointed as commander of the 1st Burma Corps, which covers all British, Indian and Burmese troops in Burma. This left General Alexander to concentrate on co-ordination with the Chinese. Rita Johnson 1943: The British Eighth Army begins its offensive against German and Italian defenders of the Mareth line. 1944: The RAF launch Operation Strangle, aimed at German communications in Italy. 1944: The German 352nd Infantry Division deploys along the coast of France. Rita Johnson 1944: In order to ensure Hungary's continued support as an axis partner, Hitler orders its occupation. Eleven German divisions cross the border from Austria into Hungary, encountering minimal resistance. 1944: Hungary's 750,000 Jews, which have so far remained unmolested by the Germans are about to endure a nightmare of mass deportation to the concentration camps as Eichmann arrives in Hungary with his "Special Section Commandos". 1945: The US 8th Air Force carries out another heavy attack (200 bombers and 700 fighters) against Berlin. Rita Johnson 1945: The U.S. Seventh Army take Worms, 60 miles to the Southeast of Koblenz. Hitler orders the demolition of all German industrial, utility and transport facilities in danger of falling into enemy hands; this order (Verbrannte Erde Scorched Earth) is sabotaged by armaments minister Speer and most local commanders. 1945: The Japanese evacuate Mandalay. 1945: The USN hit Kure naval base in the Inland Sea, Southwest of Tokyo. 1945: About 800 people were killed as Kamikaze planes attacked the U.S. carrier Franklin off Japan; the ship, however, was saved. *1936: The Soviet Union signs a pact of assistance with Mongolia against Japan. Rita Johnson **Rita Johnson was born Rita McSean on August 13, 1913 in Worcester, Massachusetts and attended the New England Conservatory of Music. A former pianist and radio actress, Rita Johnson was on Broadway from 1935 and in films from 1937. An extraordinarily versatile performer, Johnson managed to play virtually every sort of role open to an actress of above-average beauty and intelligence in the 1940s. Portraying standard heroines in such films as "Edison the Man" (1940) and "My Friend Flicka" (1943), Johnson brought far more warmth and humanity to the parts than the scripts provided. She was equally as persuasive as haughty murderess Julia Farnsworth in "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" (1941) and as the hissable "other woman" in films like "The Major and the Minor" (1944). It is positively criminal that no Academy Award came Johnson's way for her astonishing portrayal of the born-to-be-killed wife of unscrupulous Robert Young in 1947's "They Won't Believe Me". Johnson's film career came to a screeching halt after a 1948 accident when a hair dryer fell on her head that required delicate brain surgery; thereafter, her screen time was extremely limited, in keeping with her radically reduced mobility and powers of concentration. After a hair drier supposedly fell on her head and a doctor was called for her, the doctor noted that apart from her current injuries there were a number of old bruises on various parts of her body. Detectives investigating the injuries, however, reported nothing to indicate it was anything other than an accident. Rumors continued but were never confirmed that she was romantically involved with a gangster who had beaten her. Previous beatings, it was alleged, had caused the old bruises. She became an alcoholic after her accident. Fifty-three-year-old Rita Johnson died of a brain hemorhage in her Hollywood home on October 31, 1965. An autopsy showed she suffered from liver disease and alcohol induced encephalitis.

The television star died of natural causes at his California home Thursday. I guess this makes the trifecta for the week complete. RIP Fess Parker. 'Davy Crockett' was a great show to watch as a young'un.

Alex Chilton topped the charts as a teen with the Box Tops http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD9mCp8SifM RIP Alex.

For God's sake why? Goons have to support their families too!

Recorded the first episode on my Dish Network HD-DVR. Haven't taken the time to watch it yet though. Fingers crossed that it is as good or better than Band of Brothers.

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Morning. Fog again this AM, but may reach our highest temp of the year so far today of 64F. Of course, chance of snow Friday night through Saturday.

Western Electric Ad - February 1942 1940: Russia assures Sweden of its safety after Finland's surrender. 1940: Mussolini and Hitler meet in the Brenner Pass in northern Italy, Mussolini agreeing to Italy's entry into the war "at an opportune moment". *Virginia Dale 1942: Lord Mountbatten is appointed Chief of Combined Operations. 1942: The third military draft begins in the United States. Virginia Dale 1942: Gen. MacArthur appointed commander of the Southwest Pacific Theater by President Roosevelt. 1942: US forces occupy the New Hebrides in order to help protect Australia's west coast from direct Japanese invasion. 1942: War Relocation Authority established in the U.S. which eventually will round up 120,000 Japanese-Americans and transport them to barb-wired relocation centers. Despite the internment, over 17,000 Japanese-Americans sign up and fight for the U.S. in World War II in Europe, including the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated unit in U.S. history. Virginia Dale 1943: Adolf Hitler calls off the offensive in the Caucasus. 1943: American forces take Gafsa in Tunisia. 1943: Chindit forces cross the Irrawaddy in Burma. Carole Landis & Virginia Dale 1944: British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany. 1944: A New Zealand tank attack on Monte Cassino is repulsed, with the loss of all 17 tanks. 1944: The Russians reach the Romanian border. Virginia Dale 1945: The US Third Army captures Boppard on the Rhine. 1945: Kolberg falls to the Polish 1st Army, of the 2nd Belorussian Front, although the Germans manage to evacuate 80,000 refugees and wounded first. Virginia Dale *Virginia Dale (born Virginia Paxton) on July 1, 1917 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Discovered by Daryl F. Zanuck, blonde, blue-eyed actress Virginia Dale appeared in films from the late '30s through the early '50s. She is perhaps best remembered for playing Fred Astaire's dance partner in "Holiday Inn" (1942). Before coming to Hollywood, Dale danced on stage in New York as part of the Paxton Sisters. She switched to television in the early years of TV, appearing on shows such as "Wyatt Earp" and "Playhouse 90". She left the movie business for almost three decades before returning to the silver screen for a few films in the 1980s. She died from complications of emphysema in Burbank, California on October 3, 1994.

(Hic)...What?...When Irish Eyes are Smilin'... Ohhhhh...Daaaannnyyyy Boyyyyyy!!!! (Burp)