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STAN FREBERG IS NOW 86

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Stanley Victor "Stan" Freberg is still a very active author, recording artist,
animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and
advertising creative director,

Freberg was employed as a voice actor in animation shortly after he 
graduated from High School in Alhambra, California. He began at
Warner Brothers in 1944.

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In 1958, the Oregon Centennial Commission, under the sponsorship of Blitz-
Weinhard
Brewing Company
, hired Freberg to create a musical to celebrate
Oregon’s one-hundredth birthday. The result was the album Oregon! Oregon!
A Centennial Fable in Three Acts.
It was released by Capitol Records during  
the Oregon Centennial in 1959.

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WE LOST MARILYN ON THIS DAY IN 1962

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Marilyn Monroe at the birthday party for President Kennedy in 1962

         Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson) 

                             (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)

The death of Marilyn Monroe was ruled to be "acute barbiturate poisoning"
by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office and listed as "probable suicide".

Many believe to this day that she was murdered. The death of Monroe has
since become one of the most debated conspiracy theories of all time.

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May 14, 1956

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VOTED BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME!

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Kim Novak and James Stewart in Vertigo

The 1958 psychological thriller Vertigo was directed by Alfred Hitchcock
and stars James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes. The initial
release of the film received mixed reviews, but has since garnered acclaim
and is now considered a classic, defining work of Hitchcock’s career. It was
recently named the best film of all time in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics’ pool.

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A WAR HERO ON THIS DAY IN 1943

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PT-109 was a Patrol Torpedo boat commanded by Lieutenant, junior grade John F. 
Kennedy in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Kennedy’s actions to save his  
crew during the sinking of their boat after being rammed by a Japanese destroyer
off Ghizo Island. made him a war hero and proved helpful in his political career.  

After Kennedy became president, the incident inspired a song,many books, movies,
and various television series, The wreck of PT-109 was discovered in May of 2002
by Robert Ballard, a former U.S.Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at
the University of Rhode Island.

 

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Dr. Robert Ballard
 


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Scale model of PT-109

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“QUEEN OF HOLLYWOOD” BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1905

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Myrna Loy at age 15

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             Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993)

Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself
fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. She was
originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian
descent, but her career prospects improved following her portrayal of
Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934). Her successful pairing with
William Powell resulted in 14 films together, including five subsequent
Thin Man films. In 1937.

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William Powell and Myrna Loy

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