Martha Hyer (August 10, 1924 – May 31, 2014)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M (AP) –  Martha Hyer, an Oscar-
nominated actress who starred alongside the likes of
Frank Sinatra and Humphrey Bogart, and later gained
notoriety for her extravagant lifestyle, has died. She
married producer Hal B. Wallis in 1966 and the couple
remained together until his death in 1986.

Raymond Lucero of Rivera Funeral Home told The
Associated Press that Hyer passed away May 31 in
Santa Fe, New Mexico,

John Wayne with Martha Hyer in a scene from the
film "The Sons Of Katie Elder," 1965.

KGW-TV News reporter Katherine Cook

The 51st Annual Northwest Regional Emmy Awards were held in Seattle on
Saturday night and the Emmy for "Feature News Report – Light Feature" went
to Portland’s Katherine L. Cook from KGW News Channel 8 for her story titled
”Shot In The Dark”, a true story about a blind photographer who takes all of his
pictures based on what he hears around him, thus the title "Shot In The Dark”.

Tim Maguire

Prince Rogers Nelson is 56 years old today. He began writing music
at age seven.

  Catherine Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976)

Russell was an actress of stage and screen, known for playing character
roles such as a newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks 1940 comedy
His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the 1958 film Auntie
Mame. She won all five Golden Globes for which she was nominated. She
was one of the few actresses of her time who regularly played professional
women, such as judges, reporters, and psychiatrists. Her career span was
from the 1930s to the 1970s.   

The cartoon, "On the Road to Moscow," by Rollin Kirby (above) won a Pulitzer
Prize on this day in 1922. It was the first cartoon awarded the Pulitzer, an honor
that Kirby would receive three times.

Portrait of political cartoonist Rollin Kirby