Tim Maguire

A very young Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is 87 years old today

                     
                     Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender 

                    (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991) 

Leo was an inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument
Manufacturing Company, or "Fender" for short. In January 1965,
he sold the company to CBS and later founded two other musical
instrument companies, Music Man and G&L Musical Instruments.

Bill Cosby while in the U.S. Navy

 
William Henry "Bill" Cosby Jr. is 76 today

Chuck Foley

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) – The Minnesota man whose Twister game
launched decades of awkward social interactions at parties has died.

Charles "Chuck" Foley died July 1 at a care facility in the Minneapolis
suburb of St. Louis Park. His son, Mark Foley, said Thursday that his
father had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

(AP) – Hostess is betting on a sweet comeback for Twinkies when they return to
shelves starting on July 15.

The company that went bankrupt in early 2012 after an acrimonious fight with its 
unionized workers is back up and running under new owners, Metropoulos & Co.
and Apollo Global Management. The team bought Twinkies and other Hostess
cakes products for $410 million.

The company says the cakes will taste the same but that the boxes will now bear
the tag line "The Sweetest Comeback In The History Of Ever."

Twinkies were invented in the town of River Forest, Illinois on April 6, 1930 by
James Alexander Dewar, a baker for the Continental Baking Company.

James A. Dewar