Clifford Parker Robertson III
(1923 – 2011)

A Hundred Yards Over the Rim episode aired on April 7th,
1961 (season 2, episode 23). Filming locations include
Grant and Olancha, Ca.

    
    
   

On February 21, 1948, the National Association for Stock Car
Racing—or NASCAR, as it came to be widely known—was
officially incorporated. NASCAR racing went on to become
one of America’s most popular spectator sports, as well as
a multi-billion-dollar industry.

The driving force behind the establishment of NASCAR was
William “Bill” France Sr. (1909-1992), a mechanic and auto-
repair shop owner from Washington, D.C., who in the mid-
1930s moved to Daytona Beach, Florida to escape the Great
Depression .

Bill France as a racer.

After a short racing career, Bill France realized that
organizing races is business for him.

Bill France on the construction site of the Daytona
International Speedway.

Former NBA player Robert Reid, who spent most of his 13-year
career with the Rockets, has died. 

Reid died after a battle with cancer, according to the Houston
Chronicle.

Howdy Doody is a children’s television show broadcast on
the NBC television network from December 27, 1947, until
September 24, 1960.

Buffalo Bob Smith, Howdy Doody and Clarabell the clown,
originally played by Bob Keeshan, who went on to create
the children’s TV character Captain Kangaroo. 

1950s