The Beatles’ LP "Rubber Soul" rose to #1 on the Billboard Hot 200
chart, becoming the group’s seventh album chart topper. To date,
the album has sold over six million copies in America.

Paul McCartney with a copy of the “Rubber Soul” album

Leo Hirschfeld, an Austrian immigrant to the U.S. started a candy
business in a small shop located in New York City. He named his
chocolate confection after the nickname of his daughter, Clara
“Tootsie” Hirschfeld. 

By 1905, the company moved to a five-story factory and in 1917
the name was changed to The Sweets Company of America.

Trivia fact: Tootsie Rolls was the first penny candy to be individually
wrapped.

Thomas J.C. Martyn, a British aviator, journalist and former foreign-news
editor for Time Magazine was the founder of Newsweek. The last print
issue of the magazine was published December 31, 2012.

Thomas Martyn