Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s New York apartment
hits market for first time in 40 years for $1.69M.
Beginning as a radio show in the early 1950s, Mr. Moon
became one of the most popular kid shows in Portland,
Oregon.
Mr. Moon debuted on November 16, 1953 one month
after KOIN TV went on the air, and just over a year
after television came to Portland. The show aired
until 1958.
Wearing the Mr. Moon mask was radio disc
jockey Ed Leahy (1924 – 1989).
Mr. Moon with his puppet cast including Mrs. Cow, Kitty,
Sam and Harry the Heron.
Starring Mary Martin as Maria and Theodore Bikel as Captain
von Trapp, the original Broadway production of The Sound
of Music premiered at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November
16, 1959, where it won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical
and Best Leading Actress. It later moved to the Mark Hellinger,
where it would end its lauded run on June 15, 1963 after 1,443 performances.
On November 15, 1965 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah,
28-year-old Californian Craig Breedlove set a new land-speed
record of 600.601 miles an hour in his car, the Spirit of America,
which cost $250,000 and was powered by a surplus engine from
a Navy jet.
He actually drove across the desert twice that day, since
international world-record rules require a car to make two
timed one-mile runs in one hour. (Officials log the average
speed of the two trips.)
During his first trip, Breedlove traveled at a rate of 593.178
mph; during his second, the first time any person had
officially gone faster than 600 mph, he traveled at a rate
of 608.201 mph. “That 600 is about a thousand times better
than 599,” he said afterward. “Boy, it’s a great feeling.”
Norman Craig Breedlove Sr. (March 23, 1937 – April 4, 2023)
Diana Duyser, a resident of Florida.
On this day in 2004 a grilled cheese sandwich with toast
bearing an image of the Virgin Mary sold on eBay for
$28,000.
The seller claimed the 10-year-old sandwich had never
sprouted any mold.
