In this rare news photograph, Babe Ruth  has just caught a baseball dropped
from an airplane at Mitchel Field (an early New York airport) in Garden City,
Long Island. The New York Times reports Ruth donned an army uniform to
drum up publicity for the Citizens Military Training Camps.

According to the Times account, Six times, baseballs were dropped from the
airplane and Ruth was sweating up a storm, running all over the field trying to
catch one. On the seventh attempt, Ruth caught a baseball from 300 feet up.

From left: Elvis Presley, bass player Bill Black, guitarist Scotty Moore and
Sam Phillips in the control booth

“That’ All Right” sold around 20,000 copies. It was not enough to
chart nationally, but the single reached number four on the local
Memphis charts. The song is at #113 on the 2010 Rolling Stone
magazine list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".    

Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997)

Comedian Red Skelton is best remembered for his national radio and TV
performances between 1937 and 1971 and as host of the NBC/CBS
television program The Red Skelton Show (1951-1971). Red Skelton 
also appeared in vaudeville, films, nightclubs, and casinos. He also
pursued a career as an artist. After the death of his father, Skelton
started work at the age of seven as a newspaper salesman. His first
audition was at age 10 for a role in a medicine show.

Norman Corwin Directing Columbia Workshop from the control booth

Columbia Workshop was an educational radio series that aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) from 1936 to 1943, returning in 1946-47. It was a
sustaining program that served as a symbol to prove to the public, as well as the
Federal Communications Commission, that CBS was concerned with educating
and serving the public.

Orson Welles

 
Ross Simpson