From left: Art Van Harvey, Bernadine Flynn, Paul Rhymer and Bill Idelson

The radio program Vic and Sade was regularly broadcast on NBC from 1932 to
1944, then intermittently until 1946, and was briefly adapted to television in 1949
and again in 1957. During its 14-year run on radio, Vic and Sade became one of
the most popular series of its kind, earning critical and popular success,according
to Time, Vic and Sade had 7,000,000 devoted listeners in 1943.

For the majority of its run on the air, Vic and Sade was heard in episodes of 15-
minutes each without a continuing storyline. The central characters, known as
"radio’s home folks," were accountant Victor Rodney Gook (Art Van Harvey), his
wife Sade (Bernadine Flynn) and their adopted son Rush (Bill Idelson).The three
lived on Virginia Avenue in "the small house halfway up in the next block."

In May 1955,  Marilyn Monroe started dating playwright Arthur Miller (above). The
relationship between Monroe and Miller began to develop, and although the couple
were able to maintain their privacy for almost a year, the press began to write about
them as a couple, often referred to as "The Egghead and The Hourglass".They were
soon married on June 29, 1956. After a stormy marriage, Marilyn divorced Miller,
citing “incompatibility of character”.  The divorce was finalized in January 1961.

The song was initially titled “Cindy Lou” after Buddy’s niece, but Crickets
drummer Jerry Allison convinced Buddy to change the title to “Peggy Sue”,
named after Jerry’s girlfriend Peggy Sue Gerron. Allison and Gerron were
later married. The record reached #3 on the Billboard chart. Many music
critics regard this as Holly’s all-time best recording.

Pictured left to right: Maria Elena Holly, Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison and Peggy Sue Gerron.

Peggy Sue Gerron today

Del Shannon’s cover version of the Beatles’ "From Me To You" became
the first song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney to appear on
the American charts, where it would stay for four weeks, reaching #77. 

After a June 28, 1967 evening supper club engagement in Biloxi, Mississippi, 
actress Jane Mansfield, accompanied by Sam Brody, her divorce lawyer and 
companion at the time, and their driver, Ronnie Harrison, along with the stars
three children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska, set out in Stevens’ 1966 Buick 
Electra for New Orleans, where Mansfield was to appear in an early morning
TV interview.

Before leaving Biloxi, the party made a stop at the home of a family that lived
nearby. After a late dinner with these friends, during which the last photos of 
Mansfield were taken, the party set out for New Orleans. On the morning of
June 29 at approximately 2:25 a.m., on U.S. Highway 90, their the car crashed
into the rear of a tractor-trailer rig that had slowed because of a truck spraying
mosquito fogger. The automobile struck the rear of the trailer and went under
it. Riding in the front seat, all of the adults were killed instantly. The children
who were seated in the rear survived with minor injuries.

Jane Mansfield and Sam Brody