Actress Molly Ringwold released an album at the age of 6, entitled “I Wanna Be Loved By You, Molly Sings.”
Molly Ringwold was a regular in the first season of Facts of Life when there were more girls; in later seasons the series focused around Blair, Natalie, and rollerskating Tootie from the first season (after which Tootie lost her skates) and newcomer Jo.
The Young Pioneers, however … 
And isn’t it Molly Ringwald?
The board game Life, or The Game of Life, was created in 1860 by Milton Bradley as The Checkered Game of Life. The modern version was relaunched in 1960 with Art Linkletter as its celebrity spokesmodel.
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Milton the Toaster was the mascot for Kellogg’s Pop Tarts in numerous commercials during the 1960’s and '70’s.
Milton Friedman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976 and went on to advise President Ronald Reagan. He was very influential in the evolution of monetary policy, and advised policymakers in such nations as Chile, Iceland, Estonia and the United Kingdom.
The identical twins originally named Pauline Esther and Esther Pauline Friedman are better known, respectively, as advice columnists Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers.
Many photographs- especially the shirtless ones- that are identified as young pics of conjoined identical twins Chang and Eng Bunker are actually of a set of Chinese conjoined twins, Liou Seng-Sen and Liou Tang-Sen. The mistake is understandable as the Liou brothers were outwardly almost identical to the Bunker brothers in the way they were connected, but they were born 75 years later. Like the Bunkers the brothers married and had children (though nowhere near as many as Chang and Eng); unlike them they did not die together but were surgically separated at the age of 71 when one was terminally ill. How successful the separation was is unknown due to the secrecy of Maoist China.
Dr. C. Everett Koop, the anti-abortion crusader who did an admirable job as an AIDS educator as Reagan’s Surgeon General, began his career as a pediatric surgeon specializing in separating conjoined twins, at CHOP (The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia).
Former California governor Ronald Reagan came relatively close to winning the Republican nomination from incumbent President Gerald R. Ford in 1976. Ford went on to defeat at the hands of Democrat Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia, that fall.
In the mid-1980s, editor Terry Carr was hired by Ace Books to revive the “Ace Science Fiction Specials” series of novels. Carr, decided to only publish first novels by upcoming authors who had developed reputations writing shorter works and personally asked the authors he wanted to take part. He was remarkably good in his judgment: the first of the series included Kim Stanley Robinson (The Wild Shore), Carter Scholz and Glenn Harcourt (Palimpsests), Lucius Shepard (Green Eyes), Howard Waldrop (Them Bones), William Gibson (Neuromancer), and Michael Swanwick (In the Drift). Other than Scholz and Harcourt, these authors went on to become major names in the field.
Playwright William Gibson’s favorite actress was Anne Bancroft. Her Broadway debut was in his play Two for the Seesaw and their most famous collaboration was for The Miracle Worker (for which she won a Tony and then an Oscar for the screen adaptation). She starred as the title character in Golda, a 1970s Gibson play about Golda Meir that flopped, but was revamped and revived very successfully thirty years later as a one woman show (Golda’s Balcony) starring Tovah Feldshuh and later Valerie Harper.
Valerie Harper starred in the show “Valerie’s Family”, after her acrimonious departure, Sandy came aboard, and the show was renamed “Hogan Family”.
Baseball great Sandy Koufax was born Sandy Braun. His parents separated
when he was young, and he had virtually no contact with his biological father
well into adulthood. He considered his adoptive father to be his true parent.
Sandy Koufax refused to take his turn during the World Series, due to his start falling on Yom Kippur.
Koufax is the youngest man ever elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, achieving the honor at the age of 37. He was the first pitcher to throw 4 no-hitters. To make room on the roster for him when he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, they sent another promising young pitcher named Tommy Lasorda down to their top minor league club, the Montreal Royals of the International League.
Sandy Koufax was actually older than Lou Gehrig at the time of his hall of fame election. Gehrig was 36.
Lou Gehrig still holds the record for carrer grand slams with 23.
Manny Ramirez is retiring one slam short, with 22.
ARod, age 36 with 21 going into this season, should be a good bet
to pass the Iron Horse.
In evaluating relative accomplishment it is fair to consider that Gehrig
had to preamaturely retire at 36, and played 146 games less than ARod
has already played.
Edward Asner is the only actor to win acting Emmys for both a comedy series and and for a dramatic series while playing the same character – Lou Grant.
Ed Asner and Mary Tyler Moore both appeared in the Elvis Presley movie Change of Habit, although never in the same scene together, one year before The Mary Tyler Moore Show took to the airwaves.