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DECEMBER BABIESby Kathy Wolfe

All kinds of famous folks were born during the month of December. This week, Tidbits brings you a few more details about these well-known people, past and present.

• Harvey Firestone was 31 years old in 1899 when he founded the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, dealing in carriage tires. Originally he sold tires manufactured by others, but his concerns with quality led him to begin manufacturing them himself. Recognizing that the horseless carriage was the wave of the future, Firestone contacted Henry Ford, and in 1906, sold 2,000 sets of tires to the Ford Motor Company, contributing to Firestone’s first year of sales over $1 million. Their annual sales today top $4 billion.

• Growing up with six sisters as a child of Russian Jewish immigrants in New York, Issur Danielovitch earned the money to buy milk and bread by peddling snacks to mill workers. His next job was delivering newspapers, and he went on to 40 more jobs before finally settling into his permanent career as an actor. After a name change to Kirk Douglas, he played roles ranging from Doc Holliday to Spartacus to General Patton to Vincent Van Gogh.

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NATIONAL BOSS DAYby Stanley Drummond

Bosses are people, too. (Really!) And every year on October 16, America pays tribute to them.• Actually, National Boss Day was created in

1958 by an Illinois secretary named Patricia Haroski. She chose October 16 because it was her father’s birthday. Her father also happened to be her boss at the time. Nevertheless, she felt that bosses in general were underappreciated, and registered the date with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as an official observance.

• Interestingly enough, a 2005 survey done by an international human resources consulting firm revealed that the majority of employees would not trade places with their boss. The primary reason given was the change that would result between them and their co-workers. They could no longer ignore or laugh at any slackers in their department; they’d be responsible for any poor performers.

• Hallmark started selling Boss Day cards in 1979. While they don’t reveal actual sales figures, they do disclose that the “holiday” is poised to break into the list of top 10 card-send-ing events within the next few years.

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DECEMBER BABIES (continued):• French civil engineer Gustave Eiffel was

a specialist in metal constructions, mostly bridges. He entered a competition soliciting designs for a monument to serve as the entrance gateway to the 1889 World’s Fair to be held in Paris. The 984-foot-tall (300-meter) Eiffel Tower received two million visitors that year alone. Criticized as an “eyesore,” it was intended to be torn down immediately after the conclusion of the fair. Instead, it became a popular tourist attraction, evolving into the national symbol of France. It remains the most visited paid monument in the world. The tallest building in Paris, it held the honor of world’s tallest structure until 1930, when New York City’s Chrysler Building grabbed the title. Although Gustave Eiffel is most famous for his tower, he was also the designer for the framework of the Statue of Liberty.

• There’s much more to Jimmy Buffett than his “beach-bum” character. In addition to telling us “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” this Alabama native holds a degree in history and is a multi-engine licensed pilot. The 1946 Christmas Day baby has written three No. 1 best sellers and is one of only seven authors (including Hemingway and Steinbeck) who has reached the top of the New York Times Best Seller list in both fiction and non-fiction. Buffett owns two restaurant chains, Margaritaville and Cheeseburger in Paradise, along with the Margaritaville Beach Hotels and the Margaritaville clothing line. An avid Miami Dolphins fan, he penned new lyrics for the team’s song “Fins.” He also bought the rights to have Dolphins Stadium renamed Landshark Stadium for the 2009 season due to the popularity of his private label Landshark Lager beer. Throw in those eight gold and nine platinum albums, and you see this guy is no bum at all!



DECEMBER BABIES (continued):• If you’ve been to a performance of the operas

“La Boheme,” “Tosca” or “Madama Butterfly,” you’ve heard the musical compositions of Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini. Born December 22, 1858, this genius had his life cut short when his chronic sore throats were diagnosed as throat cancer, a result of chain-smoking cigars and cigarettes.

• A bright future awaited Binger, Oklahoma High School’s class valedictorian of 1965. Born on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, December 7, in 1947, this young man was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds and spent 16 years as baseball’s greatest catcher. Johnny Bench was Rookie of the Year in 1968, National League MVP in 1970 and 1972, World Series MVP in 1976, 14-time All-Star, and winner of 10 Gold Gloves. He has been a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame since 1989 and has been named the 16th greatest player of all time by Sporting News. His success hasn’t come without consequences, however. Stress on his hip joints resulting in severe arthritis led Bench to hip replacement surgery in 2004, when he was fitted with a ceramic hip.

• “Book ‘em, Dano,” was the catchphrase familiar to fans of the 1970s cop drama “Hawaii Five-O” and uttered by Detective Steve McGarrett. McGarrett was portrayed by actor Jack Lord, born John Joseph Patrick Ryan in Brooklyn in December of 1920. Lord had already had two careers before his show business fame. He started out as an engineer working in Persia, then came back to the states to run a Greenwich Village art school. His own paintings were displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Modern Museum of Art. In his late twenties, Lord made the switch to acting. James Bond movie fans will recognize him for his role in the very first James Bond film; he played a CIA agent in 1962’s “Dr. No.”

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1. The 1,063-ft. (324 meter) tall Eiffel Tower compares to what size building?

2. Everybody loves this person born on Dec. 21, 1957. Who is he?

1. Name the poet, born December 10, 1886, who wrote, “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”2. What news anchor called the government “an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats”?3. What actor was on Kickapoo High School’s golf and tennis teams in Springfield, Missouri? 4. Who is considered the inventor of the modern method of freezing food?5. What mathematician and physicist calculated the force needed to hold the moon in its orbit?

“No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris …[because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.” – Orville Wright

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The first airplane fatality occurred during the crash of a plane piloted by Orville Wright. In a 1908 flight, as Wright piloted an Army lieutenant officially observing a flight, a propeller shattered, and the craft plummeted to the ground. Orville received a broken leg, four broken ribs, three hip bone fractures and a dislocated hip. The lieutenant perished.

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A man walked over the department store perfume counter and told the clerk he’d like a bottle of Chanel No. 5 for his wife’s birthday. “Oh! A little surprise, huh?” smiled the clerk.“Absolutely,” the customer replied. “She’s expecting a cruise.”

During the 1930s, Howard Hughes built a movie theater in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, in his native Texas, naming it the Texas Theater. It was here that police officers arrested Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 shortly after he had assassinated President John F. Kennedy.

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• It was French playwright Albert Guinon who made the following sage observation: "There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves." • Most people at all familiar with the name Max Schmeling know him as the Great Nazi Hope, the boxer produced by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s to defeat Joe Louis, supposedly proving Aryan superiority. (He did defeat Louis in a match in 1936, though he lost a rematch in 1938.) What most people don't realize, though, is that Schmeling did not subscribe to Hitler's beliefs -- he wasn't even a member of the Nazi party. In fact, during World War II, Schmeling risked his life to save two Jewish children. • For reasons that are unclear now, the Supreme Court in 1893 declared that a plant eaten during a main course was a vegetable and one eaten afterward was a fruit. • What do King Henry VIII, science-fiction author H.G. Wells, English naturalist Charles Darwin, American author Edgar Allan Poe and composer Sergey Rachmaninoff have in common? They all married their cousins. • The 1958 film "Gigi," starring Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier, has the distinction of having the shortest title of any film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. • The home of sitting U.S. presidents, the White House, didn't become widely known as the White House until 1902, during Theodore Roosevelt's term in office. The building was originally called the President's Palace, but the word "palace" was deemed to be too royal-sounding, so the name was changed to the Executive Mansion. ***Thought for the Day: "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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DECEMBER BABIES (continued):• If you’ve been to a performance of the operas

“La Boheme,” “Tosca” or “Madama Butterfly,” you’ve heard the musical compositions of Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini. Born December 22, 1858, this genius had his life cut short when his chronic sore throats were diagnosed as throat cancer, a result of chain-smoking cigars and cigarettes.

• A bright future awaited Binger, Oklahoma High School’s class valedictorian of 1965. Born on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, December 7, in 1947, this young man was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds and spent 16 years as baseball’s greatest catcher. Johnny Bench was Rookie of the Year in 1968, National League MVP in 1970 and 1972, World Series MVP in 1976, 14-time All-Star, and winner of 10 Gold Gloves. He has been a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame since 1989 and has been named the 16th greatest player of all time by Sporting News. His success hasn’t come without consequences, however. Stress on his hip joints resulting in severe arthritis led Bench to hip replacement surgery in 2004, when he was fitted with a ceramic hip.

• “Book ‘em, Dano,” was the catchphrase familiar to fans of the 1970s cop drama “Hawaii Five-O” and uttered by Detective Steve McGarrett. McGarrett was portrayed by actor Jack Lord, born John Joseph Patrick Ryan in Brooklyn in December of 1920. Lord had already had two careers before his show business fame. He started out as an engineer working in Persia, then came back to the states to run a Greenwich Village art school. His own paintings were displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Modern Museum of Art. In his late twenties, Lord made the switch to acting. James Bond movie fans will recognize him for his role in the very first James Bond film; he played a CIA agent in 1962’s “Dr. No.” 4th Quarter 2010

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DECEMBER BABIES (continued):• Every time you hold a one-dollar bill, you see

the work of Gilbert Stuart, born on December 3, 1755, who has been dubbed the “Father of American Portraiture.” This Rhode Island-born artist trained in London and painted likenesses of more than 1,000 American political figures, including the first six U.S. Presidents. Portraits of George Washington hanging in schoolrooms everywhere have a white, cloudy unfinished area across the bottom. Stuart left this one unfinished at the time of his death. The original portrait can be seen in the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian.

• Denzel Washington is the son of a Pentecostal minister, who also worked at the local water department, and a hairdresser. This gifted actor holds a degree in journalism from Fordham University. He got his start in the hospital drama “St. Elsewhere” and appeared in the series for its entire six-year run. His son John plays professional football for the St. Louis Rams. He celebrates his birthday every December 28.

• Those who remember the 1968 Summer Olympics might recall a spunky little 16-year-old gymnast named Cathy Rigby. Before she wrapped up her gymnastics career, she had garnered eight gold medals in various international events. Her next career move was to the Broadway stage. She prepared for it with seven years of voice and acting lessons. She is best known for her Broadway portrayal of Peter Pan, a perfect role for this little pixie.

• Coincidentally, two members of the popular 1960s band The Monkees share the same birthday, although three years apart. Michael Nesmith was born on December 30, 1942, and singer Davy Jones came along in 1945.



THE WRIGHT BROTHERSIn recognition of Wright Brothers Day on De-cember 17, Tidbits takes a closer look at these creative geniuses who made the world’s first powered, sustained, piloted flight on that date in 1903. • Wilbur and Orville Wright began their working

careers in 1889 in the printing business, publishing The West Side News in Dayton, Ohio. Four years later, the pair opened a bicycle rental and repair shop, later branching out into bicycle manufacturing. In their free time, they studied aeronautics and experimented with building a flying machine.

• The two brothers incorporated their knowledge of bicycles into their plane design. They were familiar with the principles of balance, chain and sprocket systems, wind resistance and aerodynamic shaping, and recognized the need for a strong but lightweight craft. Starting with kits and gliders, and constructing their own wind tunnel, the Wrights experimented for four years before their historical flight.

• The Wrights chose the Atlantic coast at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, as the site for their manned gliding experiments based on its consistent breezes and soft landing surface. They began practicing their piloting skills in non-powered gliders there in 1900. They constructed the Wright Flyer I in 1903 out of spruce and muslin fabric, carving their own wooden propellers. A gasoline engine built in the bicycle shop was added, and the craft was ready for it inaugural flight.

• On December 14, 1903, the brothers flipped a coin to determine who would be the first pilot of the Flyer, with Wilbur winning the toss. However, after only 3.5 seconds, the craft lurched up, stalled, then smashed into the sand, creating some minor damage.

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WRIGHT BROTHERS (continued): Three days later, with the damage repaired,

Orville took the controls and flew 120 feet (37 meters) in 12 seconds. Three more flights followed that day — Wilbur flying 175 feet (53 meters) in 12 seconds, followed by Orville’s 200-foot (61-meter) flight for 15 seconds, concluding with Wilbur flying an amazing 852 feet (260) meters) in 59 seconds. All the flights were about 10 feet (3 meters) above the ground.

• Within minutes of the fourth flight, a strong gust of wind flipped the Flyer over several times, causing extensive damage. The plane was shipped home and never flew again. Many years later, Orville restored it, and the craft was lent to several museums before settling into its permanent home in 1948 at the Smithsonian where it can be seen today.

• There were five witnesses to the flights, three of them members of a U.S. government life-saving crew, an area businessman and a local teenager. The newspapers seemed to pay no heed to the monumental feat for nearly a year and a half. Even the Wrights’ hometown Dayton Journal didn’t publish the story, claiming the flights were “too short to be important.”

• In May of 1906, the Wrights were granted a patent for a “flying machine.” They incorporated as The Wright Company in 1909, not only selling aircraft, but also transporting commercial air cargo and running a flying school as well. One of their more famous pupils was Henry “Hap” Arnold, who went on to become a Five-Star General, commanded U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and was the first head of the U.S. Air Force.

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THE WRIGHT BROTHERSIn recognition of Wright Brothers Day on De-cember 17, Tidbits takes a closer look at these creative geniuses who made the world’s first powered, sustained, piloted flight on that date in 1903. • Wilbur and Orville Wright began their working

careers in 1889 in the printing business, publishing The West Side News in Dayton, Ohio. Four years later, the pair opened a bicycle rental and repair shop, later branching out into bicycle manufacturing. In their free time, they studied aeronautics and experimented with building a flying machine.

• The two brothers incorporated their knowledge of bicycles into their plane design. They were familiar with the principles of balance, chain and sprocket systems, wind resistance and aerodynamic shaping, and recognized the need for a strong but lightweight craft. Starting with kits and gliders, and constructing their own wind tunnel, the Wrights experimented for four years before their historical flight.

• The Wrights chose the Atlantic coast at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, as the site for their manned gliding experiments based on its consistent breezes and soft landing surface. They began practicing their piloting skills in non-powered gliders there in 1900. They constructed the Wright Flyer I in 1903 out of spruce and muslin fabric, carving their own wooden propellers. A gasoline engine built in the bicycle shop was added, and the craft was ready for it inaugural flight.

• On December 14, 1903, the brothers flipped a coin to determine who would be the first pilot of the Flyer, with Wilbur winning the toss. However, after only 3.5 seconds, the craft lurched up, stalled, then smashed into the sand, creating some minor damage.

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