The Red Skelton Show was largely associated with the CBS television
network for fifteen years. but the series began (1951) and ended (1971)
on NBC, The show received three Emmy Awards for Skelton as best
comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial
season and an award for comedy writing in 1961.   

Aviator Maximilian "Max" Conrad set nine official light plane records in the
1950s and 1960s. On February 27, 1961, Conrad left Miami in a PA-23
Aztec named New Frontiers and touched down back in Miami on March 8,
1961, setting a new around-the-world record. His average speed was 123.
19 mph.

Some of Conrad’s stops included Long Beach, California, Honolulu, Wake
Island,Guam, Manila, Singapore, Bombay, and Brazil, crossing the equator
twice. Conrad was accompanied by an observer for the record flight.

In 1964, Max Conrad received the prestigious Harmon Trophy for the most
outstanding international achievement in the art of flying. He was one of the
greatest small plane pilots ever.

 
The Piper PA-23 Apache/Aztec flown by Conrad

Max Conrad was presented the Harmon Trophy by Vice President
Hubert Humphrey in 1964.

 
    
       Robert Bernard Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 5, 2012)

Award winning songwriter Robert Sherman specialized in musical films with his
brother Richard Morton Sherman. Some of their best known songs were heard
in movies and animations such as “Marry Poppins”, “The Jungle Book”, and “Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang”. Sherman’s agent, Stella Richards, said that he died peacefully Monday in London.

Robert Sherman, far right, seen here with brother Richard, Julie Andrews
and Dick Van Dyke on the set of Mary Poppins

  Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990)

Rex Harrison was an English actor of stage and screen who an Academy Award
and two Tony Awards during his career. He made his stage debut in 1924 in the
production of Thirty Minutes in a Street. His film debut came in 1930 on The
Great Game. Harrison retired from films in the late 1970, but continued to
act on Broadway until his death from pancreatic cancer. He was knighted
by Queen Elizabeth ll in 1989.

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1967

 

Composer Dimitri Tiomkin won an Academy Award for his original score while 
his title song for the film “The High and the Mighty” was also nominated for 
an Oscar.  

Dimitri Tiomkin

An airline pilots cap from "The High and the Mighty (valued at $1,000 to
$1,500.