CHINA KITCHEN, I WOULD LIKE TO ORDER THREE NO. 4 DINNERS WITH BROWN RICE AND EXTRA HOT MUSTARD.

Shirley Rose Eikhard (7 November 1955 – 15 December 2022)

(AP) – Shirley Eikhard, the singer-songwriter who penned Bonnie
Raitt’s 1991 hit ‘Something to Talk About,’ has died. She was 67.

Eikhard’s publicist Eric Alper confirmed her death, telling the AP
that she passed away on Thursday due to complications from
cancer at the Headwaters Health Care Centre in Orangeville,
Ontario.

Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright made
the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-
than-air aircraft.  Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-
driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered
120 feet on its inaugural flight.

               Orville Wright                         Wilbur Wright

National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC.

Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944)    
    
    
    
    
    
 

General James Doolittle of the United States Army Air Forces
(USAAF), hero of the daring “Doolittle Raid” on mainland Japan
and later the unified commander of Allied air forces in Europe
in World War II, offered the following high praise to one of his
staff officers in 1944: “Next to a letter from home, Captain Miller,
your organization is the greatest morale builder in the European
Theater of Operations.”

Starring from left: Robert Culp, William Katt, and Connie Sellecca.

The series premiered as a two-hour pilot movie on March 18, 1981,
and ran until February 2, 1983 on ABC. It was created by producer
Stephen J. Connell.

William Theodore Katt  will be 72 years old in February.