Hazel is a Screen Gems television sitcom series the follows the life a fictional live-
in maid named Hazel Burke (Shirley Booth) and her employers, the Baxters. The
five-season, 154-episode series aired in primetime from Thursday September 28,
1961 until September 5, 1966. The first four seasons aired on NBC-TV and were sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. The show was based on a popular single
panel comic strip (below) by cartoonist Ted Key that appeared in the Saturday
Evening Post.

 
Mount Hood

Timberline lodge, located on the south side of Oregon’s Mount Hood ,was built as a
Works Progress Administration (WPA) project during the Great Depression between
1936 and 1938. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (above at podium) dedicated the
Lodge on Tuesday September 28, 1937, five months before the completion of the
interior of the lodge in February, when it was opened to the public.   

"She Loves You" was the first song by The Beatles to be played on the radio  
in the United States. New York City DJ Murray “The K” Kaufman (above) later 
recounted: "In late ’63 they brought a record to me and mentioned the possibility  
that The Beatles might be coming to America, so I said, ‘Okay’, and I put it on the
air”. Murry  became an early supporter and friend of the group. He often referred
to himself as the fifth Beatle.

Murry (center) with The Beatles

Soul singer Ben E. King is perhaps best known as the singer and co-composer
of the hit record “Sand by Me”, released in 1961. He was one of the principle
lead singers for the R&B vocal group The Drifters. King recently started a tour
of the United Kingdom, with venues in England, Scotland and Wales