The Cochran family in 1939, Mother Alice, Eddie, sister Pat
and father Frank 

Edward Raymond ‘Eddie’ Cochran  (October 3, 1938–April 17, 1960)

Cochran’s rockabilly songs, such as "C’mon Everybody", "Somethin’ Else",
and "Summertime Blues" had a lasting influence on rock music and future
stars like The Beatles.

April 18, 1960

Reprint of the first issue of the times 

The New York Times is a daily newspaper, founded by journalist and politician 
Henry J. Raymond, then a Whig and later second chairman of the Republican 
National Committee, and former banker George Jones. It has won 112 Pulitzer
Prizes, more than any other news organization. Its website is one of America’s
most popular news sites – and most popular among all the nation’s newspapers, 
receiving more than 30 million unique visitors per month. 

The paper’s print version remains the largest local metropolitan newspaper in 
the United States and third-largest newspaper overall, behind The Wall Street 
Journal and USA Today.

Henry Jarvis Raymond

Allen Neuharth (far right), the CEO of Gannett Newspapers, celebrates the 
first issue of USA Today along with the staff

USA Today is a national daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company 
and founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal
for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United
States, USA Today is distributed in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, Guam, Canada and the United Kingdom. The newspaper is headquartered 
in the Tysons Corner area of Fairfax County, Virginia.

USA Today headquarters

The comic strip Blondie was created by cartoonist Chic Young and distributed by 
King Features Syndicate. The success of the strip led to a long-running Blondie
film series (1938–1950) and the popular Blondie radio program (1939–1950).

Chic Young drew Blondie until his death in 1973, when creative control passed
to his son Dean Young, who continues to write the strip. Young has collaborated
with a number of artists on Blondie, including Mike Gersher, and Stan Drake. The
strip has been translated in 35 languages and appears in more than 2,000 papers
in 47 countries.

                  
                             Chic Young (Murat Bernard Young)

          
                                                   Dean Young

A very young Jim Davis

James Robert "Jim" Davis

Davis is the creator of the syndicated comic strip Garfield which
has been published since June 19, 1978. It holds the Guinness
World Record for being the most widely syndicated comic strip.