MIKE GRACIA

Pat and Shirley Boone

(People) – Singer Pat Boone’s wife of 64 years, Shirley Boone, has died.  

People reports that Boone died "peacefully" on Friday morning (Jan. 11)
at the couples’ Beverly Hills home. She had been suffering complications
from vasculitis, which she had contracted in 2018.

Her husband and their four daughters Cherry, Lindy, Debby and Laury
were by her bedside singing hymns when she died. Pat Boone tells
People he believes he will reunite with his high school sweetheart soon.

SANDY KOZEL

Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (February 1, 1878 – December 21, 1950)

Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate
when Arkansas Governor Harvey Parnell appointed Caraway to fill
her late husband Thaddeus’ seat; her appointment was formally confirmed by a special election held on this day in 1932.
 

On this day in 1971, the television sitcom "All In the Family" debuted
on CBS-TV. It is often regarded as one of the greatest TV series of
all time. It soon became the most watched show during summer
reruns and afterwards ranked number one in the yearly Neilsen
ratings from 1971 to 1976. TV Guide ranked “All in the Family” 
as the fourth-greatest show of all time. The final original show
was April 8, 1979.

From left: Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Carroll O’Connor, and Sally
Struthers.

SANDY KOZEL

On this day in 1964, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry (above) 
released a report that said that smoking cigarettes was a definite
health hazard.

Amelia Earhart Putnam became the first woman to fly solo from
Wheeler Field in Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland Airport in Oakland,
California on this day in 1935.

Amelia in Oakland, triumphant after the Hawaii-to-California flight.

Amelia Mary Earhart, (born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937)

July 1960

Hit Parader was first published in 1942 during World War II out of Derby, Connecticut and became one of the longest-running U.S. music magazines.

The publication pre-dated the music charts by a few years.  Initially the
magazine would provide the lyrics to the popular songs of the day, a practice
which came to an end in the ’70’s.

The magazine came into the spirit of pop and rock with the arrival of first,
The Beach Boys and then especially with the explosion on the scene by
The Beatles.  At that point in time it took on a whole new look and feel,
often mimicked by many other ‘teen’ magazines which began to ‘pop’ up.

Hit Parader migrated through the various genre’s during the 1970’s – moving
on to hard rock, metal and the like up into the mid 1980’s.  The magazine
went through some troubled times in the 1990’s shutting down for a time
and finally called it quits after putting out it’s final issue in December of
2008.

December, 1943

March, 1958

January, 1959

December, 1969