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Link to source: Highlights: How the Columbus-based Children's Publisher Is Navigating the Digital Age
Quote from source: 1948: Goofus and Gallant, cartoon characters who deal with manners, arrive.
Another quote from same source: Goofus and Gallant, characters who depict negative and positive behavior in monthly Highlights illustrations, have morphed from elves to boys
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On VJ Day in New York City’s Times Square, in a moment of celebration, a random sailor kissed a random nurse on the street. The famous VJ Day Kiss photograph was captured by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
The nurse was not really a nurse. She was Austrian Grete Sara Zimmer Friedman, a dental assistant. Greta viewed the moment as a celebration, not romance, and not an assault. The sailor kissing her was George Mendonsa, a Navy quartermaster on leave from the Pacific.
Greta fled Nazi persecution in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II.
Navy journalist Victor Jorgensen, serving in the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit, took a photo of the same couple in Times Square at the same time as Alfred Eisenstadt, but from a different angle. It was published the next day in the New York Times.
That moment was depicted in the 2009 alternative-history superhero movie Watchmen, but it was Ursula Zandt AKA The Silhouette, an Austrian-born crimefighter, who kissed the nurse, not the sailor.
Ursula Andress is a Swiss actress. She appeared in two James Bond movies: as Honey Ryder in Dr. No (1962), and then as Vesper Lynd in the parody Casino Royale (1967).
In George of the Jungle cartoons, George would call his wife Ursula by the nickname Fella.
Dr. Ursula von der Leyen specialized in women’s health and formerly taught at the Department of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health System Research at the Hanover Medical School in Hanover, Germany. Since 2019 she’s been the President of the European Commission. She is the first woman to hold the office and the first German since the commission’s first president, Walter Hallstein.
After arriving in Hollywood, actress/model Ursula Andress appeared in one episode of the TV anthology series Boris Karloff’s Thriller in 1962 before debuting as Honey Ryder in Dr No. It would be 20 years before she returned to television in an episode of Manimal.
Manimal was a 1983 fantasy-crime television series, which aired on NBC. The show starred Simon MacCorkindale as Jonathan Chase, a suave professor who could change his shape into that of any animal (though he most frequently turned into a panther or a hawk); Chase used his powers to assist police detective Brooke McKenzie (Melody Anderson) in solving crimes.
The show was poorly-received, and cancelled after only seven episodes; it still prominently features on lists of the worst television series of all time.
Salmon Portland Chase, Republican of Ohio, was Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, and a very ambitious man. Despite scheming to wrest the Republican nomination from Lincoln in the election of 1864, Lincoln, after winning reelection, appointed him late that year to replace Roger Brooke Taney as Chief Justice of the United States. Chase twice later sought the Presidency while serving as Chief Justice, but it eluded him both times.
One man has been both President of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States (or any justice of the Supreme Court), William Howard Taft.
William Howard Taft was known for his weight (over 300 lbs). Supposedly, after a ride when he was Governor General of the Philippines, there was an exchange of telegrams with the question “How is the horse?”
However, evidently he was a practiced rider over the years:
The story of Taft being stuck in a bath tub is a myth, but there is a true story involving the heaviest POTUS to hold office and a tub: Shortly after he was elected president, Taft needed to travel to Panama to inspect progress on the Panama Canal. Prior to the trip, he had a bathtub custom built and installed for himself in the USS North Carolina. The tub measured 7 feet 1 inch long and 41 inches wide and weighed one ton. And he was never stuck in it.
There have been four U.S. Navy ships which have carried the name USS North Carolina:
Another USS North Carolina, a South Dakota-class battleship, was laid down in 1920, but never completed, as work on the six ships in the class was halted due to the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
The death of princess Charlotte in 1817 during childbirth led to a succession crisis for the UK throne. None of George III’s sons (her uncles) had any legitimate children; some had mistresses, but weren’t married. It became incumbent on the uncles to marry and produce children. The Duke of Kent was able to marry and have the future queen Victoria before he died.
Kent Benson was the starting center for the 75-76 Indiana Hoosiers basketball team. Led by Coach Bob Knight, they went 32-0, winning the NCAA Men’s Division-1 Tournament. They are the last team, as of 2024-25, to be undefeated National Champions.
As noted, the 75-76 Indiana Hoosiers were the last undefeated National Champions in college basketball. The team opened the season by defeating the Soviet National Team, who were the reigning world champions, by a score of 94-78. The first regular season game was against the defending NCAA champions, the UCLA Bruins. Indiana won that game 84-64, in Gene Bartow’s first game coaching UCLA after the retirement of John Wooden.
From 1948 to 1975, John Wooden coached UCLA’s men’s basketball team, winning 10 of 12 NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, including a run of seven in a row; to this day, no other team has won more than two straight titles. Within this period, his teams won a men’s basketball-record 88 consecutive games.
Guard Quinn Buckner was the captain of that undefeated National Champion 1975–76 Indiana Hoosiers team. Buckner went on to play NBA ball for the Milwaukee Bucks, the Boston Celtics, and the Indiana Pacers. In 1984, he won an NBA title with the Celtics along with forward and finals MVP Larry Bird, fellow guard Danny Ainge, forward Kevin McHale, and center Robert Parish when they defeated the LA Lakers 4 games to 3.
The NBA Finals series is noteworthy for Celtics forward Kevin McHale clotheslining and tackling Laker forward Kurt Rambis on the latter’s breakaway layup in game 4. The series was a physical one.
McHale’s Navy ran from 1962-1966. It starred Ernest Borgnine.
Ernest Borgnine won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the movie Marty. That movie is one of only four to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or (or equivalent). In fact it was the first Palme d’Or awarded.