The career of Eva Marie Saint spans seven decades, starring in films,
on Broadway, and television. She won an Academy Award for Best 
Supporting Actress for her performance in the film On the Waterfront 
(1954), and later starred in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller North by
Northwest (1959). Saint received Golden Globe and BAFTA award
nominations for the drama film A Hatful of Rain (1957) and won an
Emmy Award for the television miniseries People Like Us (1990). Her
film career also includes roles in Exodus (1960), and Superman
Returns (2006).

 
Marlon Brando & Eva Marie Saint, “On the Waterfront”

 
Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in "North by Northwest"

The patriotic song "America the Beautiful" was originally a poem written by
Katharine Lee Bates and was published in the Fourth of July edition of the
church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895. At that time, the poem
was titled America for publication.

Church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward had originally written the
music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it
was not first published until 1892. Ward’s music combined with the Bates
poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful.

From time to time it has been proposed as a replacement for The Star-
Spangled Banner as the national anthem.

Katharine Lee Bates

Samuel A. Ward

From THE DICK CAVETT SHOW. September 18, 1972.

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play major league
baseball. He made his major league debut at Ebbets Field in 1947 as
a Brooklyn Dodger. In 1955, he helped the Dodgers win the World
Series.Robinson retired in 1957, with a career batting average of
311. He was the first African-American to be inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame on July 3, 1962. The Dodgers retired his
uniform number #42 in 1972.

Jackie Robinson at his induction ceremony into the Baseball Hall
of Fame

The Jackie Robinson Hall of Fame plaque

George Michael Cohan (July 3, 1878 – November 5, 1942)

George M. Cohan was a playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer,
dancer and producer. He began his career as a child, performing with
his parents and sister in a vaudeville act known as "The Four Cohans.

He is considered the father of American musical comedy. His life and
music were depicted in the Academy Award–winning film Yankee Doodle
Dandy (1942) and the 1968 musical George M!. A statue of Cohan in
Times Square in New York City commemorates his contributions to
American musical theatre.

The establishment of the Veterans Administration (VA) came in 1930 when
Congress authorized President Hoover to "consolidate and coordinate
Government activities affecting war veterans." The three component
agencies became bureaus within the Veterans Administration. Brigadier
General Frank T. Hines, who directed the Veterans Bureau for seven
years, was named as the first Administrator of Veterans Affairs, a job
he held until 1945.

President Herbert Hoover