The SS Andrea Doria, seen at home in port, was the last major transatlantic
passenger vessel to sink before the airplane became the preferred mode of
travel.

(Born July 24, 1897; missing July 2, 1937, declared legally dead January 5, 1939)

Amelia Earhart was a famous aviation pioneer and author who was the first woman 
to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross. It was awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation
of The Ninety-Nines, an organization of female pilots. During an attempt to make a circumnavigation flight of the globe in 1937 in a Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Amelia Earhart disappeared off the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. To this day,
no trace of the Electra or its occupants has ever been found.

Amelia Earhart just before fatal flight in 1937

Perhaps the last photo ever taken of Earhart’s Electra as it departed New Guinea

Milton Berle’s last radio series was The Texaco Star Theater, which began on
ABC, September 22, 1948 and continued until June 15, 1949. It served as a
springboard for Berle’s rise as television’s first major star.

Medic episodes were introduced and narrated by Richard Boone (above), playing Dr. Konrad Styner who sometimes also appeared in the stories. A total of 59 were aired
from September 1954 to November 1956 on NBC.