Roberta Cleopatra Flack (February 10, 1937- February 24, 2025)

(AP) – Singer Roberta Flack, known for the hit Killing Me Softly,
has died . 

Her manager, Suzanne Koga, stated she died from cardiac arrest
on her way to the hospital in Manhattan.

   
Zane as Match, was one of the three high school boys
who made up Biff Tannen‘s gang in Back to the Future 
(1985).

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Actor William George Zane Jr. was born in Chicago. His
breakthrough role was in the 1989 Australian film Dead
Calm, a performance that earned him a nomination for
the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most
Promising Actor.

He has since appeared in numerous films and television
series, and starred as the main antagonist Caledon Hockley
in the epic film Titanic (1997), for which he and the rest of
the ensemble cast was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild
Award.

(TNND) — The U.S. Postal Service will be celebrating and
honoring beloved actress Betty White with a new forever
stamp bearing her likeness.

USPS said in a news release the stamp will commemorate
her "warmth, wit and charisma."

A forever stamp means it never expires and is equal to the
price of 1-ounce First-Class mail.

The actress was best known for roles in “The Golden Girls,
" “The Mary Tyler Moore Show," and “Boston Legal."

She died less than three weeks before her 100th birthday in
late December 2021.

The Postal Service announced it will host a special event on
March 27 to unveil the new stamp at the Los Angeles Zoo
and Botanical Gardens.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) began selling
Forever stamps on April 12, 2007. The first Forever
stamp featured the Liberty Bell.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer of the
1960s and after whose rich, intimate baritone graced such
hits as "For Your Precious Love," "Only the Strong Survive"
and "Make It Easy On Yourself," has died. 

Butler’s niece, Yolanda Goff, told the Chicago Sun-Times that
Butler died Thursday from Parkinson’s disease at his home
in Chicago.

Jerry Butler, top left, and Curtis Mayfield, bottom right, in
the Impressions.

Little Trees are disposable air fresheners shaped like
a stylized evergreen tree, marketed for use in motor
vehicles, and most commonly seen hanging from rear-
view mirrors. They are made of an absorbent material
produced in a variety of colors and scents.

Little Trees were invented in 1952 in Watertown, New
York, by Julius Sämann, a German-Jewish chemist
and businessman who had fled Nazi Germany. 

He had studied Alpine tree aromas in the forests of
Canada and managed to combine excellent perfumes
with a specific material and to manufacture the first
automotive air freshener.

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Julius Sämann (1911 – 1999)