Show host Hugh Downs

Chuck Yeager and his Bell X-1 experimental supersonic plane, named
after his wife.

Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is a retired major general in the
United States Air Force and former test pilot. He was the first pilot
to travel faster than sound in 1947.

Nov.-Dec. 2010

Yeager is depicted by actor Sam Shepard in the 1983 film  "The Right Stuff".

 
First Strip

Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is a long-
run comic strip created by Harold Foster in 1937. The strip currently appears
weekly in more than 300 newspapers, according to its to its distributor, King Features Syndicate.

Harold Rudolf Foster

Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) is best known as the 
keyboardist and bass guitarist of The Monkees.