Babe Ruth’s presence still looms over Yankee Stadium … he set countless marks that still stand unchallenged. The crowds loved him, and for 22 years, he gave them more than their money’s worth. He hit the most home runs with a life total of 714. He received the most bases on balls of any man […] Read more

The speckles in the Pacific night sky were bombers. Nine twin-engine Japanese bombers, in formation, on course to their target: the aircraft carrier Lexington. Butch O’Hare could see them all clearly from the cockpit of his Grumman Wildcat F4F. He was their lone-wolf pursuer, tagging along in the darkness. If he did not seize the […] Read more

If you are unsure about the procedures for changing a contract’s terms and conditions, please review ‘Lesson 5: Terms and Conditions’. In this lesson, you will follow a fictional character, Renee, as she determines whether or not a contract should be modified […] Read more

The memorable motion picture “The Way We Were” brought her a 1973 Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. The very successful “A Star Is Born,” released in 1976, was the first movie to benefit from her energy and insight as a producer and won six Golden Globes. The soundtrack album topped the charts and has […] Read more

Barbara was born 73 years ago to a nightclub owner and article producer Lou Walters and his wife Dena. The couple had already lost a son and had an older daughter who was mildly retarded. The family bounced back and forth from Boston to Miami to New York, where they lived in penthouses until her […] Read more

The American rock group, The Beach Boys, are known for their rich vocal harmonies and for songs about cars, love, and surfing in the California sun. The band was formed in 1961 by three brothers from Hawthorne, California – Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and a friend Al Jardine. The Beach […] Read more

Of all the hundreds of symphonies that have been composed, none can rival in popularity or emotional interest the nine great symphonic works that Beethoven wrote. Beethoven took music off the pedestal of formal beauty, where Haydn and Mozart had left it, and immersed it in the whirlpool of life. He roughened it up until […] Read more

Ben Franklin preached the joy of work and practiced what he preached. As a young man, he sometimes worked all night to finish a promised job on time. When he bought paper for his printing shop, he was not too proud to trundle it home himself in a wheelbarrow. On his first journey to Philadelphia, […] Read more

Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were loved by literally millions of movie fans around the entire world in the 1930’s. They did 21 feature films together and saved RKO Studios from bankruptcy. They were also RKO’s biggest moneymakers when the RKO stable included Cary Grant, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Kathryn Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and […] Read more