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.

Camille Bohannon

Harrison Ford is 72 years old today. Ford was active in the Boy
Scouts of America, and achieved its second-highest rank, Life
Scout. He worked at Napowan Adventure Base Scout camp as
a counselor for the Reptile Study merit badge. Because of this,
he and Eagle Scout director Steven Spielberg later decided to
depict the young Indiana Jones as a Life Scout in the 1989 film
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

     David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003)

David Brinkley was a TV newscaster for 50 years and the partner of
Chet Huntley. He won ten Emmy Awards three George Foster Peabody
Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his career. He
served in the United States Army for two years and was a journalist for
a local newspaper.

From left: Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on the NBC news set in 1956

Sandy Kozel

Sandy Kozel

Thomas Cruise ( born"Tom" Mapother IV in Syracuse, New York)
is 52 today