Their story starts in 1912 with a Boston inventor named Lawrence Luellen, who
crafted a two-piece cup made out of a blank of paper. He joined the American
Water Supply Company, the brainchild of a Kansas-born Harvard dropout, Hugh
Moore. The two began dispensing individual servings of water for a penny—one
cent for a five-ounce cup from a tall, clumsy porcelain water cooler. Soon they
were the Individual Drinking Cup Company of New York and had renamed their
sole product the Health Kup. The name was changed to “Dixie Cup” in 1919.

Hugh Everett Moore (1887-1972), Dixie Cup
Company president

William (Bill) Knox

William Knox of Philadelphia rolled the first perfect 300 game in tournament   
competition history in the USBC Open Championships in Toledo, Ohio. He
had a reputation for match game and league bowling in the East. Knox once
rolled a 300 game with a screen at the foul line so he couldn’t see the pins
for the purpose of illustrating the effectiveness of spot bowling. 

The first definitive series of U.S. postage stamps offered iconic American
pictorial images other than portraits of statesmen (above). The scenes
included the Statue of Liberty, the Lincoln Memorial and even an image
of an American Buffalo. At first the general public disapproved of the
stamps, complaining that the scenes were no substitute for images of
presidents.

A later issue of the stamps presented pictorial images only on the higher-
value stamps, the more commonly used dominations of 12 cents and
lower, along with the traditional portraits. 

Chuck O’Rear with a copy of his ‘Bliss’ photo in the area where it was shot 

Former National Geographic magazine photographer Chuck O’Rear was driving
to see his girlfriend when he was struck by the beauty of the rolling vineyards in
Sonoma, Napa, California. He stopped, got out his camera and snapped what
would become the most viewed image in the world. It was chosen by engineers
at Microsoft as the desktop image for their Windows XP background.   

He can’t say how much he got paid for the rights to the photo, but it is reportedly
the second most expensive photo license ever purchased. 

O’Rear now specializes in photographing winemaking in the Napa, California area 
and around the world.

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Tork at age 14

Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson)   

Tork is best known as the keyboardist and bass guitarist of The Monkees
and at one time played banjo on a George Harrison album.