John Cameron Swayze (April 4, 1906 – August 15, 1995)

Swayze was a popular news commentator and game show panelist during
the 1950s. He first sought work as an actor,but acting roles in Broadway
theater during 1929 became scarce due to the stock market crash.

Swayze returned to the Midwest and began working for the Kansas City
Journal Post as a reporter. He soon graduated to radio in 1940 doing
news updates for the local CBS radio affiliate KMBC. He later moved
to Los Angeles and Hollywood where NBC hired him for its western
news division before moving him to its New York news operation
in 1947. 

In 1949 Swayze was chosen to host NBC’s first television newscast,
the fifteen-minute Camel News Caravan where he.read items from
the news wires and periodically interviewed newsmakers.  

"Just My Imagination" became the third song by The Temptations to
reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed at the top of
chart for two weeks. It was the final Temptations song to feature
founding members Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams.
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            Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004)

Bando is considered to be one of the most important actors in modern
American Cinema and was one of only three professional actors, along
with Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe, named by Time magazine as
one of its 100 Persons of the Century in 1999.

Marlon Brando became a screen star during the 1950s, winning his
first Academy Award for his performance as Terry Malloy in the 1954
film On the Waterfront. His second Academy Award came in 1972
for his  role as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The
Godfather.

Brando in The Godfather

 
Marlon Brando as Col. Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1970)

President Harry Truman signed into law the Economic Recovery
Program, also known as the Marshall Plan, which would provide
over $13 billion in aid to post-war Europe.

President Harry Truman signs the Economic Assistance Act.

Gen. George Marshall, who proposed the Marshall Plan

Elvis Presley made the first of two appearances on The Milton Berle Show,
live from the flight deck of the USS Hancock,San Diego, California. He made
$5,000 for performing "Heartbreak Hotel", "Money, Honey" and "Blue Suede
Shoes".

Elvis (second from left) and Berle (center) during rehearsal for the show