Orange County, CA.
Operations/Credit Manager with 15 Years Experience, Middle & Large Ticket, initiated policies for Patriot Act and Sarbanes Oxley, Team Motivator.
E-mail: equiplender@aol.com

Experienced Credit, Collections, lease and Finance operations. Manager w/expertise in improving bottom line performance, excellent trainer, manager, motivator. Get result/keep the customer coming back.
Email: rgmorrill@comcast.net

New York, NY.
10+ years in equipment leasing/secured lending. Skilled in management & training, documentation, policy and procedure development & implementation, portfolio reporting. Strong work ethic.
Email: dln1031@nyc.rr.com

New York/New Jersey
5+ years experience in leasing. Knowledge of positions: SMB Credit and Contract Administrator. Relocating to the NY/NJ area.
Email: LeaseOps2004@AOL.com

Wayne, NJ
20+ heavily experienced collection/recovery VP looking to improve someone's bottom line. Proven, verifiable track record. Knowledge of all types of portfolio. Will relocate
Email: cmate@nac.net

The Federal Reserve Board is expected to raise interest rates to 2.5 percent while the European Central Bank is seen leaving rates unchanged at 2 percent at its policy meeting on Thursday.

The Fed statement is due after the meeting of the policy setting committee, the first of a series of closely watched events this week that includes U.S. jobs data and a meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) economic powers.

The next Beige report is not due until March 9, 2005. The Beige Book summarizes this information by District and sector. An overall summary of the twelve district reports is prepared by a designated Federal Reserve Bank on a rotating basis.

San Rafael, CA--Allegiant Partners Incorporated, a direct funding source specializing in story credits between $75,000 and $250,000, announces record funding volume for 2004.

"Allegiant Partners funded $17 million in leases and equipment financing agreements for its own account in 2004, up over 25% from our volume levels in 2003. We attribute the higher level of funding to several factors, primarily a concerted effort to provide our brokers with a better understanding of the types of transactions we fund. We've also added several new staff members helping us turn around transactions much more efficiently," stated Doug Houlahan, Director, Sales and Marketing at Allegiant Partners.

Back Row: Ben Carlile, Brent Thorn, Stacy Lynch, Doug Houlahan, Scott Enbom, Paul Foster
Front Row: Chris Enbom, Norma Brewer, Chris Lerm

"We have really carved a good nationwide niche in funding story credits for brokers and other leasing companies. We have a couple of strong alliances with other funding sources that has allowed us to do larger transactions for clients. For 2005, we are hoping to break the $20 million barrier in new fundings," added Paul Foster, Director, Sales and Marketing.

Allegiant funded a $250,000 sale-leaseback for a start-up fitness center in the southeast. A partnership of 30+ guarantors with excellent credit and strong personal financial statements had invested nearly $2M into the LLC. The managing members had experience running a smaller facility and pre-sold over 2000 memberships.

An experienced hotel owner/operator purchased an under performing national franchise near O'Hare Airport in Chicago, IL. This operator has been successful buying and selling hotels and used the proceeds from a recent project to acquire this property. A proven track record, strong personal financial statement and minimal debt on this project allowed us to approve the FF&E transaction.

Participation on $390,000 in manufacturing equipment After approving the purchase of equipment for a manufacturer of dietary supplements, the lessee was able to take advantage of substantial savings if they increased the order to a larger amount. Since our limit per lessee is $250,000, we were able to bring in another funding source to participate in our lease and provide the total financing requirement .

A very successful national operator of restaurants that features bowling and entertainment needed financing for a new location in Toronto, Canada. We were able to meet the lessees needs by structuring an EFA against unencumbered FF&E in another domestic location with the proceeds to go to the new store.

For further information regarding Allegiant Partners, please contact: Paul Foster at 415-257-4200 x 206 or Doug Houlahan at 415-257-4200 x 205 Visit www.allegiant-partners.com

Allegiant Partners Inc.
999 5th Avenue Suite 300
San Rafael, CA 94901
phone: 415.257.4200
fax: 415.257.4201

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Chief Judge Rosemary Gambardella has agreed to grant a deadline extension request from NorVergence's liquidating trustee, who says he needs more time to act on about 1,500 unexpired leases before they are automatically cancelled.

The ruling marks the second deadline extension for trustee Charles Forman, the fourth since the proceedings started. The new deadline is Feb. 28, 2005.

"The liquidating trustee needs more time to act on the leases because lawsuits over the leases that name the debtor are all over the place," says Forman's counsel, Michael Holt of Forman Holt & Eliades.

The Federal Trade Commission, various federal and state agencies, including eight state attorneys general have launched lawsuits against NorVergence, claiming that the failed company defrauded its customers. It is reported that the California Attorney General staff has been negotiating with Wells Fargo and others, and is about to launch a suit.

Several states are also suing or settling with the leasing companies that bought leases from NorVergence.

Thirty-six of those companies are being sued by 1,100 of NorVergence's former customers, according to the bankruptcy court. Telecomagents.com places their Weir law suit number at over 2,500, while the Michael Green Class Action Suit is encompassing all those who do not “settle” and qualify to partake in any potential award. There is five other state similar group actions, clients represented are not known.

Many leases companies have written off over $50 million in leases, as is required by their accountants or regulating agencies, although they continue to seek remedy in court.

An equal amount are in litigation, but it is not known if they have been written off the books at this time, most likely carried in another financial category.

In the bankruptcy filings, it was reported that NorVergence had placed over 11,000 leases into effect.

The CIT Group is expected to lead the asset-backed securities (ABS) market this year by continuing the strong origination pace it sustained last year. The ABS sector has faced a number of setbacks in recent years, including industry consolidation and fraud allegations at DVI Inc., but CIT gave the sector a boost by tapping the ABS market three times last year. CIT recently renewed its S3 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shelf filing, which is valued at $1 billion in notes backed by receivables and collateral from construction, transportation, manufacturing, and other industries.

The company's specialty finance unit, with $15.7 billion in assets, made up about 35 percent of CIT's total financing and leasing assets in fiscal 2004. The specialty finance unit also represented about 40 percent of CIT's $52.4 billion in managed assets as of Sept. 30, 2004.

Unlike some analysts who are expecting the equipment sector to remain flat this year, analysts at Moody's Investors Service predict public issuances of equipment ABS will rise modestly in 2005. "If the economy continues growing in 2005, investment in industrial equipment is likely to increase, contributing to a higher issuance volume from existing players and the emergence of new issuers," Moody's analysts wrote in a recent report.

Moody's also notes that the improving construction and manufacturing sectors, which had been weak, are a positive sign for equipment ABS in the new year

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Middle Market Sales Rep.: exp. sales reps throughout country for middle market leasing/financing. Must have min.5-years exp. in “hard assets” ranging from 100K -$1.0MM generated from vendor and /or direct sources. Excel. benefits, base salary and commission program. Resumes to amandell@eqcorp.com .

About the Company: A rapidly expanding Middle Market Leasing / Finance Company located in CT. Equilease Financial Services, Inc

MBA Economic Forecast: Long Term Rates Should Remain Low,
Support Real Estate Finance Activity

(While other indicators are that the rising interest rate will slow down the mortgage business, MBA expects 2005 to be “strong” primarily due to ... Brisk property sales and refinancings are the underlying themes.” Editor)

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is projecting strong economic growth through 2007, with gross domestic product (GDP) growing at a trend rate of about 3.5 percent in real terms annually.

"The year 2005 looks to be a strong one, with GDP growing slightly above trend at 3.6 percent, down somewhat from the 4.4 percent growth rate of 2004. This will result in continued strength in employment and a strong but modestly slowing housing market. …There will likely be a slight up-tick in the inflation rate in 2005…," says Doug Duncan, MBA chief economist and senior vice president, research and business development.

"Long-term rates will therefore remain quite low and thus supportive of real estate finance activity, whether residential or commercial." Long-term rates should increase from current levels by 50 to 65 basis points by the end of 2005, and another 25 to 35 basis points during 2006, Duncan says finally reaching about 7 percent for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage by the end of 2007. "Coming off a fairly steady rate environment in 2004, these are very modest interest rate increases for the level of economic growth we are expecting," he says.

Existing-home sales will come off record levels and fall by 7.2 percent in 2005, another 7 percent in 2006 and a bit more than 1 percent in 2007.

At that pace, sales in 2007 will be at the then record level of 2002. New-home sales will fall by 6.1 percent in 2005, by 10 percent in 2006 and another 3 percent in 2007, again at the record level of 2002. In addition, home-price growth is expected to be less rapid, with existing-home prices increasing 4.7 percent during 2005 and new-home prices increasing 3.7 percent.

Price increases in 2006 and 2007 are expected to be in the 3 percent to 4 percent range. Residential mortgage originations for both purchase and refinance loans will be down modestly from the second biggest year on record in 2004.

Purchase loans will total $1.559 trillion in 2005, decline slightly to $1.517 trillion in 2006 and then rise to $1.556 trillion in 2007. Residential refinance loans will total $983 billion in 2005, $689 billion in 2006 and $559 billion in 2007.

Total residential mortgage production in 2005 will be $2.542 trillion, basically tied with 2002 for the third-biggest year ever. The 2005 multifamily market will be similar in volume to 2004's market.

Brisk property sales and refinancings are the underlying themes. This will be the front of an elevation of refinance activity due to the maturing of a significant volume of loans made a decade ago. It appears from preliminary data that mortgage bankers originated a record volume of commercial loans in 2004. Commercial mortgage activity should be similarly strong in 2005 as rates remain low, yield-maintenance clauses expire and loans get refinanced, and the strengthening economy improves underlying commercial property economics.

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Business is good and getting better. Volume is up. Credit and profitability are strong. Lessors need funding. So why not sign up to be a Funding Source Exhibitor at this premier ELA event.

The manufacturing sector index has declined for seven consecutive months and is now in neutral territory. The favorable factors, with one exception, realized steep declines in January.

The index of favorable factors is down 580 basis points relative to January 2004. The significant decline in sales activity over the past two months needs to turn around if the manufacturing index is to remain above 50 in February.

The sales index for January is at its lowest level since December 2002, whereas the credit extended index is at its lowest level since January 2003.

The one positive factor in the survey is that filings for bankruptcies are not increasing as activity slows.

full report with graphs at:
http://www.nacm.org/resource/press_release/pressJan05.html

For the fourth quarter of 2004, Greater Bay Bancorp's net income was $21.1 million, or $0.33 per fully diluted common share, compared to $21.4 million, or $0.37 per fully diluted common share, for the fourth quarter of 2003, and $22.5 million, or $0.36 per fully diluted common share, for the third quarter of 2004.

For the year ended December 31, 2004, net income was $92.9 million, or $1.50 per fully diluted common share, compared to $92.0 million, or $1.62 per fully diluted common share for the year ended December 31, 2003

PHILADELPHIA)----Resource America, Inc. (NASDAQ:REXI) announced today that LEAF Financial Corporation (LEAF), a wholly owned subsidiary of Resource America, Inc. has completed a $75 million loan facility with WestLB's Asset Securitization team - a unit of WestLB Investment Banking North America - for the benefit of Lease Equity Appreciation Fund I, LP (LEAF I, LP), a limited partnership sponsored and managed by LEAF.

LEAF I, LP is a public limited partnership that invests on a levered basis in a diversified portfolio of business essential equipment leases. It invests in a variety of equipment types, such as medical, technology, office automation and industrial. The leases are originated by LEAF and are generally written for small to mid-sized companies throughout the US.

"We are thrilled that the investors in our partnership can be supported by a prestigious financial institution like WestLB," Crit DeMent, Chairman and CEO of LEAF said. "The financial solutions provided under this agreement will greatly assist LEAF I, LP in reaching its investment objectives."

LEAF Financial Corporation is a commercial leasing company headquartered in Philadelphia, PA. LEAF's business model is to originate small ticket equipment leases by reaching the small to mid sized business market by forming strategic marketing alliances and other program relationships with equipment vendors, commercial banks and other financial institutions. After origination, LEAF manages the leases for its own account, institutions, and individual investors through investment partnerships and other investment vehicles.

Resource America, Inc. is a specialized asset management company that uses industry specific expertise to generate and administer investment opportunities for its own account and for outside investors in the energy, financial services, real estate and equipment leasing industries. For more information please visit our website at www.resourceamerica.com or contact Investor Relations at investor relations@resourceamerica.com.

WestLB AG is a European commercial bank and is one of Germany's leading financial services providers with total assets of more than EUR 281 billion (as of June 2004). WestLB operates in international markets through a global network of offices in 28 countries and is rated Aa2 by Moody's, AA- by Standard & Poor's, and AAA by Fitch IBCA. WestLB offers the full range of products and services of a universal bank, focusing on financial advisory, lending, structured finance, project finance, capital markets and private equity products, asset management, transaction services and real estate finance. WestLB Group employs approximately 7,280 staff worldwide. Due to its presence in the most important financial centers around the world, WestLB provides acknowledged advisory expertise and access to international debt and equity markets for its clients.

Resource America, Inc., Philadelphia Pamela Schreiber, 215-546-5005
215-546-5388 (facsimile) or WestLB AG Group Communications
Connie J. Kain, 001-212-597-1439 connie_kain@westlb.com

LEASETEAM'S NEW REPORT DISTRIBUTION MANAGER (RDM)
ALLOWS FAST, EASY AND SECURE DISTRIBUTION OF
REPORTS VIA INTERNET OR SCHEDULED E-MAIL

OMAHA, NE., J5 -- LeaseTeam, Inc., the premier end-to-end software solution provider to the equipment finance industry, is pleased to announce a revolutionary new way to distribute customer service reports to users. LeaseTeam's new Report Distribution Manager (RDM) allows fast, easy and secure distribution of reports via either the Internet or scheduled e-mail.

Many businesses have made an investment in systems which extract information from their databases, then build reports their customers value. Unfortunately, getting those reports into the hands of users can be a tedious manual process that consumes far too much time. The process can also be costly, as each user is often required to own multiple software licenses in order to view the reports.

Report Distribution Manager instead allows reports to be distributed via e-mail or made accessible on the Internet. E-mailed reports can be automatically sent out on any schedule specified, and users can view online reports 24 hours a day, seven days a week. RDM quickly recognizes users, controls what reports each user can access, and filters out non-approved data. Sites can include private labeling so that they look like the customers'. RDM even allows reports to be distributed to multiple users without requiring the purchase of additional licenses.

LeaseTeam, Inc. created Report Distribution Manager so that its customers and business partners could extend their online services and heighten their level of customer service. RDM integrates seamlessly with LeaseTeam's Lease Sales Manager OneTM, the front-end office solution that supports business origination from a variety of sources, including vendor and dealer partners, brokers and end-user customers.

“Report Distribution Manager is just one more way LeaseTeam is responding to the needs of its customers in the equipment finance industry,” said Randy Haug, Vice President of LeaseTeam, Inc. “By providing a package which quickly and easily allows distribution of reports through scheduled e-mail or the Internet, we give our business partners a way to increase productivity and realize a fast return on their investment.”

LeaseTeam, Inc. is a privately held company incorporated in 1989 with headquarters based in Omaha NE. Key software products include Lease Sales Manager OneTM, LeasePlus OneTM and a portfolio of reporting solution software. LeaseTeam products are the preferred software for more than 300 equipment leasing companies throughout the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit our Web site at
www.leaseteam.com
or call (402) 493-3445

Highland Capital Corporation Announces the Addition of
James G. O'Malley, Account Executive

Little Falls, NJ: Highland Capital Corporation, is pleased to announce the addition of James G. O'Malley to their National Healthcare Sales Team. With over 17 years of small ticket vendor leasing experience primarily in the healthcare equipment market, James brings a wealth of knowledge to HCC. Prior to joining HCC, James has held various sales and sales management positions with GE Capital / Trans Leasing and American Express Equipment Finance.

In his new position, James will focus on business development, program management and sales in the Healthcare Vendor Market. He will be responsible for bringing in new vendor relationships on a national level.

Highland Capital Corporation is a member of the Greater Community Bancorp family of financial services companies, a publicly traded organization headquartered in New Jersey. HCC is a full service lessor with over 50 years of collective experience serving the Healthcare Equipment and Commercial Equipment Markets. For more information you may contact them toll free at 877-527-4422 or visit their website at
www.highlandcc.com.

– NEW YORK – Thacher Proffitt & Wood llp announced today that the Firm has elected Maria M. Livanos to the partnership. Maria is a member of the Structured Finance Practice Group, resident in the New York City office. In addition, Kenneth P. Addeo was named counsel in the Real Estate Practice Group, resident in the White Plains, NY office.

“We are delighted to welcome Maria into the partnership, and congratulate Ken on becoming counsel,” said Paul Tvetenstrand, managing partner of Thacher Proffitt. “They both already have contributed immensely to their respective practice areas and the Firm as a whole, and I am looking forward to their continued successes.”

Maria Livanos has worked on numerous aspects of corporate finance, including structured, project and commercial finance. Maria represents trustees, insurers, master servicers, collateral agents and back-up servicers in matters involving asset and mortgage-backed securitizations, corporate debt issuances and commercial paper conduits. She also represents domestic and foreign issuers, underwriters, placement agents and lenders in connection with high yield corporate debt issuances, Rule 144A/Regulations S debt offerings, public debt offerings and transportation financings.

Maria received her JD from the New York University School of Law in 1983 where she was a member of the editorial staff of the Journal of International Law & Politics. She received her BA, cum laude, from Smith College in 1980.

Maria joined Thacher Proffitt as an associate in 1983 and was made counsel in 2000.

Kenneth Addeo's practice focuses on commercial real estate law and asset-based finance. He represents commercial banks, saving banks and capital companies in a variety of transactions, including commercial fee and leasehold mortgages, commercial real estate leasing, construction and development loans, and commercial asset-based loan facilities. He also represents wireless communications companies in wireless communications site leasing and development matters.

Ken received his JD cum laude from the Albany Law School of Union University in 1990 where he was a member of The Justinian Society. He received his BS from Siena College in 1986.

A firm that focuses on the capital markets and financial services industries, Thacher Proffitt & Wood llp advises domestic and global clients in a wide range of areas, including corporate and financial institutions law, securities, structured finance, swaps and derivatives, cross-border transactions, real estate, real estate lending, insurance, admiralty and ship finance, litigation and dispute resolution, technology and intellectual property, executive compensation and employee benefits, taxation, trusts and estates, bankruptcy, reorganizations and restructurings. The Firm has more than 200 lawyers located in New York City, NY, Washington, DC, White Plains, NY, Summit, NJ and Mexico City, Mexico.

Driver on Favre: 'This season was his last year'
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/3367980

Pop the ... cap?
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/story/
6108389p-5992638c.html

Wineries in Arizona
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/
0201janettour01.html

    1848-Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo: The war between Mexico and the US formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in the village for which it was named. The treaty provided for Mexico's cession to the US of the territory that became the states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, in exchange for $15 million from the US. In addition, Mexico relinquished all rights to Texas, north of the Rio Grande. The Senate ratified the treaty Mar 10, 1848.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb02.html
    1876-William Hulbert founded the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs at a meeting in Chicago Original franchisees were granted to Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis.
    1886-William R. Benet birthday, American poet and critic. Born at Fort Hamilton, NY; died at New York, NY, May 4, 1950.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/B/Benet-S1t.asp
    1870-The first Justice of a state supreme court who was African-American was Jonathan Jasper Wright of Beaufort, South Carolina, who served as one of the three members of the court from February 2 to December 1, 1877. He resigned due to a move to oust him by white society. After leaving the Court, Wright moved to Charleston and set up a law practice. He established Claflin College's law department and conducted classes at his office in Charleston. He served a number of years as a Claflin College trustee and was active in the Republican Party. Jonathan Jasper Wright died on February 19, 1885 of tuberculosis.
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/691/
Jonathan_Wright_lawyer_and_politician
http://www.law.sc.edu/memory/wright.htm
    1876 -- National Baseball League forms, consisting of Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Louisville and Hartford.
and the right field bleachers go mad with Chicanos and blacks
and Brooklyn beer-drinkers,
"Tito! Sock it to him, sweet Tito!"
and sweet Tito puts his foot in the bucket
and smacks one that don't come back at all,
and flees around the bases
like he's escaping from the United Fruit Company.
As the gringo dollar beats out the pound.
and sweet Tito beats it out like he's beating out usury,
not to mention fascism and anti-Semitism.
and Juan Marichal comes up,
and the Chicano bleachers go loco again...
— excerpt, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Baseball Canto"
    1880-The first electric streetlight was installed in Wabash, Indiana. This day the city appropriated $100 to the Brush Electric Light Company of Cleveland, OH, to install a light on the dome of the courthouse. On March 31, four lights, each over 4,000 candlepower, were placed on a staff above the courthouse, and on April 8, a further payment of $1,800 was authorized.
    1892-The first bottle cap with a cork drown was invented in 1892 by William Painter, founder of the Crown Cork and Seal Company, Baltimore, MD, who obtained a patent for the product on this day. It was a simple bit of tin with a corrugated rim or skirt into which was inserted a disc of natural or composition cork. It changed the bottle industry and the popularity of soda drinks. http://www.makk.fi/crowns/williampainter.asp
    1888-Guitarist Louis Keppard birthday, New Orleans, LA.
    1893-The first “close-up” recorded on film, known as “The Sneeze.” One day after Thomas Edison's "Black Maria" studio was completed at West Orange, NJ, a studio cameraman took the first "close-up" in film history. The Record of a Sneeze, starring Edison's assistant Fred P. Ott, was also the first motion picture to receive a copyright (1894).
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/edison/aa_edison_movies_2_e.html
    1881- Birthday of Anne Bauchens - U.S. film editor, first woman to receive an Academy Award for film editing for her work on North West Mounted Police (1940). She was the sole editor of all 40 of Cecil B. deMille's films from 1918 to 1959. At 75 she reduced 100,000 feet of film to a viewable 12,000 that became the movie The Ten Commandments (1956). She was also nominated for her work on The Greatest Show on Earth, and Cleopatra (1934).
    1895-George ("Papa Bear") Halas, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach and owner, born at Chicago, IL. After playing football at the University of Illinois and baseball with the New York Yankees, Halas helped to found the National Football League and the Chicago Bears in 1920. As coach of the Bears for 40 years, he compiled a record of 324 wins, 151 losses and 31 ties. Charter member of the Hall of Fame, 1963. Died at Chicago, IL, Oct 31, 1983.
http://www.manlyweb.com/realmen/GeorgeHalas.html
http://www.beninati.com/pages/Halas-Ditka-tribute.htm
    1905-Birthday of Ayn Rand, (Alice Rosenbaum), Russian-born U.S. novelist and screenwriter whose novels on rugged individualism developed a huge cult following. Her first major novel, The Fountainhead (1943) became a movie but it was her second, Atlas Shrugged (1957) that spurred the "objectivism" movement as was summarized as "I swear - by my life and my love of it - that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." She advocated that rational self-interest should be the basic interest of a person and self-fulfillment the person' moral responsibility. She saw altruism as a political and personal weakness. Her philosophy of objectivism, essentially reversing the traditional Judeo- Christian ethic.
http://www.ayn-rand.com/ayn-rand-bio.asp
http://www.aynrand.org/
    1907-W.H.Auden birthday, Pulitzer Prize-winning Anglo-American poet was born at York, England. "Some books," he wrote in The Dyer's Hand (1962), "are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered." Died at Vienna, Austria, Sept 28, 1973.
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=121
    1914-African-American Ernest E Just, biologist, receives the Spingarn Medal for pioneering research on fertilization and cell division.
http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/Museum/ernest.html
http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/just.html
A postage stamp in his honor was issued February 1,1966
    1922 - Film director William Desmond Taylor was found in his Hollywood, California, bungalow, shot through the heart. His murder involved the most prominent female stars in Hollywood: Mary Pickford, Mabel Normand, and Mary Miles Minter. When detectives investigated Taylor's home, they found many keepsakes, including a photograph of Pickford, a collection of women's underwear with initials and the date of conquest, and perfumed love letters from Minter. While Pickford knew nothing of the killing, her name was linked to the case for months. Normand was the last person to report seeing Taylor alive. The beautiful comedic star told police she dropped by to see Taylor that evening and stayed for two hours, discussing movies and books. It was suspected that she went for more than conversation. Although she was later exonerated, her character was tarnished by the press. Normand never again rose to the stardom she once had, and her latest film, Susanna, was pulled from circulation by Mack Sennett after "Good Housekeeping" magazine pronounced Normand too "adulterated" for the screen. Minter's career, too, was ruined. The young actress had loved Taylor deeply. During his funeral, Minter rushed hysterically to Taylor's open coffin and kissed his corpse. The media had a vindictive heyday with Minter's affair with the director. Taylor's killer was never found.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/
william_taylor/1.html?sect=26
    1924-Alto/Tenor sax player Edward “Sonny” Stitt born Boston, Mass. Died July 22, 1982 in Washington, D.C.
http://www.thejazzfiles.com/JazzStitt.htm
http://www.jazzvisionsphotos.com/contact/stitt.htm
    1925-Sled Dogs Save Nome. When a diphtheria outbreak was diagnosed in Nome, Alaska ( Popular 1,500) on January 21, the nearest large amount of antitoxin serum was in Anchorage. bitter winter temperatures made air delivery impossible, so a heroic dog sled relay was set up, 300,000 unites of serum were delivered by train to Nenana, Alaska, and on January 27-in temperatures of 40-50 degrees below zero—20 mushers drove scores of dogs on a 674-mile journey to Nome in 127 hours. Togo was the lead dog for the first 350 miles, and Balto was the lead dog on the final 53miles. The frozen serum arrived at 5:30am and once thawed and administered, there were no more diphtheria deaths. Balto became a national hero, and a statue was erected in his honor in New York City's Central Park.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/sleddogs/balto.html
http://www.heritagepreservation.org/PROGRAMS/
SOS/4KIDS/arthist/balto.htm
    1926-Birthday of great RandB,Jazz tenor saxophone player Red Prysock, Greensboro,NC. I have one of his first vinyl albums, 1956, Mercury “Rock and Roll,” with a picture of an attractive lady dancing. In those days. Black musicians never had their picture on the album for sale to Caucasians. It is a classic example and a fantastic album.
http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymar41/rprysock.html
http://www.theiceberg.com/artist.html?artist_id=27579
(super collection of the RandB tenor saxophone players of this era, as your remember there was no “big band” music in the early 1950's and groups like Johnny Otis and Big Jay McNeely, along with Red Prysock were “it.” The RandB jazz organ also came into being during this time, and Count Basie had a small group featuring his organ playing (made several records.)
    1927-Great jazz Tenor Saxophone player, one of the “Four Brothers,” Stan Getz birthday, born at Philadelphia, PA. He was one of the first to introduce the cool-jazz style, no vibrato, which became a major movement in the 1950s, and the bossa nova (new wave) style of the 1960s. Getz received 11 Grammy Awards, and was the first jazz musician to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year (1965) for "The Girl from Ipanema." Died at Malibu, CA, June 6, 1991.
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_getz_stan.htm
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=181
    1928 -- Cynthia Macdonald, American poet born New York City. Her first published volume of poetry, Amputations (1970), drew attention with its startling imagery. She founded the creative writing program at the University of Houston in 1979.
http://www.casa-chia.org/cynthiamacdonald/oct31-1991.html
http://www.casa-chia.org/cynthiamacdonald/ http://www.annonline.com/interviews/980112/biography.html
    1931 – Birthday of American poet Judith Viorst.
http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/viorst.html
    1935-The lie detector was first used as evidence in a court of law for consideration by a jury was the Keeler Polygraph, invented by Leonarde Keeler of the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Il. Keeler conducted a test this day in Portage, WI, and produced graphs of the test in the case of Wisconsin State v. Cecil Loniello and Tony Grignano that was being heard in the Circuit Court of Columbia County, WI. Both defendants were found guilty of assault. Test of a similar nature had been used in minor civil and criminal cases as early as 1924, when blood pressure readings were made with a Tycos sphygmomanometer.
    1936-Baseball Hall of Fame. The five charter members of the brand-new Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, NY, were announced. Of 226 ballots cast, Ty Cobb was named on 222, Babe Ruth on 215, Honus Wagner on 215, Christy Mathewson on 205 and Walter Johnson on 189. A total of 170 votes were necessary to be elected to the Hall of Fame.
    1937-Birthday of wine maker, and also well-known comedian and folk singer, “Mother liked him best,” Tom Smothers, (brother of Dick Smothers, "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"), born New York, NY. Best known for his plaintive, "Mom always liked you best!" and as the slightly slow-witted (on-stage that is), comical half of the Smothers Brothers, Tom Smothers also has had a sporadic solo career as an actor and performer of children's music. He made his feature film debut sans brother Dick Smothers in Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972). A master at Yo-Yo tricks, Smothers made an instructional video, The Yo-Yo Man, in 1988.
http://www.smothersbrothers.com/
    1937 - Guy Lombardo and his orchestra recorded "Boo Hoo" on Victor Records. It became one of the group's all-time hits.
    1942-guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer born St Matthews SC
http://www.courageartists.com/jamesblood.htm
http://www.furious.com/perfect/bloodulmer.html
http://www.hyenarecords.com/james_ulmer_2.htm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NNOK/
inktomi-musicasin-20/ref%3Dnosim/102-3404776-8123369
    1947-Dream girl Farrah Fawcett birthday, actress, model ("Charlie's Angels," The Burning Bed), born Corpus Christi, TX.
http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,5219,00.html
http://www.charliesangels.com/farrah.html
http://www.spacesurfer.com/wceleb/list/Farrah_Fawcett_0.html
    1949-Golfer Ben Hogan was involved in a near-fatal automobile accident when the car he was driving was hit head-on by a bus. Despite serious injuries, Hogan recovered to win the 1950 US Open, beating Lloyd Mangrum and George Fazlo in a playoff.
    1951 -- -35ºF (-37ºC), Greenburg, Indiana (state record until 1994)
    1953---Top Hits
Why Don't You Believe Me - Joni James
Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes - Perry Como
Keep It a Secret - Jo Stafford
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive - Hank Williams
    1953-Birthday of “River of Dream's” girl Christie Brinkley, born Malibu, California. American supermodel whose 20-year contract with Cover Girl (1976–96) was the longest-running contract in the modeling industry. Her image has graced the covers of dozens of magazines, including three Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues. Brinkley's nine-year marriage (1985–94) to singer Billy Joel was highly publicized and they produced a daughter. Her hobby was taking photographs of celebrities, including her husband many singing tours, particularly the visit to the USSR. She appeared in Joel's music videos and in the John Hughes's comedies, National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) and Vegas Vacation (1997) with Chevy Chase . She has two children and in 1996, she married husband number four, architect Peter Cook.
http://www.famousbabes.com/christie/cbpics1.htm
http://www.spacesurfer.com/wceleb/list/Christie_Brinkley_0.html
    1950-“What's My Line” premieres on TV. This popular game show premiered on CBS and ran for 17 years in prime time. A panel of four celebrities figured out the professions of the contestants and the identities of the mystery guests by asking yes-or-no questions. The first panel consisted of poet Louis Untermeyer, columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, New Jersey Governor Harold Hoffman and psychiatrist Dr. Richard Hoffman. Yankee Phil Rizzuto was the first mystery guest. John Daly hosted.
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/4439/whatsmyline.html
http://www.geocities.com/mcarroyo86/
    1955- Petula Clark's first major hit "Majorca," debuts on the U.K. chart. Although the single is the first of a string of Top Twenty hits in the U.K. and Europe, it will be ten years before Clark gets a hit in the U.S.
http://www.petulaclark.net/
    1956- Autherine Lucy becomes the first black student admitted to the University of Alabama after Governor George Wallace who blocked the University's doorway is removed by U.S. marshals.
http://ww2.rochester.k12.mn.us/john-marshall/teacherpages/dastutz/
civrigthsper1-2002/chanellet.htm
http://www.cptr.ua.edu/alex/studyguides/patton.htm
http://www.datelinealabama.com/article/
2002/11/21/3352_news_art.php3
    1956- Atlantic Records signs the Coasters, and rushes to release their first record, "Down in Mexico," written by new Atlantic writers Leiber and Stoller.
http://www.angelfire.com/mn/coasters/atlant.html
http://www.johnnyspencer.info/images06/downinmexicoC.jpg
http://www.onlinetalent.com/Coasters_songlist.html
http://www.delafont.com/music_acts/coasters.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/mn/coasters/hits.html
    1956 - A record snowstorm in New Mexico and west Texas began on Ground Hog's Day. The storm produced 15 inches of snow at Roswell NM, and up to 33 inches in the Texas Panhandle
    1957-Fats Domino sings "Blueberry Hill" and "Blue Monday" on Perry Como's television show.
    1959- Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper make their last onstage appearances during the GAC Winter Show tour, at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.
    1959-Frankie Avalon's "Venus" is released on Chancellor Records. It will become the teen idol's greatest hit.
http://www.history-of-rock.com/frankie_avalon.htm
    1960-Roland Americo “Buddy” Blancalana, former baseball player, born Larkspur, California.
    1961---Top Hits
Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles
Calcutta - Lawrence Welk
Shop Around - The Miracles
North to Alaska - Johnny Horton
    1962-Uelses vaults 16 feet. At the Milrose Games in Madison Square Garden, Marine Corps corporal John Uelses became the first man to pole vault higher than 16 feet, indoors or outdoors. Using a fiberglass pole, Uelses cleared 16 feet, ¼ inches.
http://www.lasalle.edu/alumni/hoa/uelses.htm
http://users.commkey.net/fussichen/otdtrac.htm
    1967-Hockey player Arthur Irbe born Riga, Lativa, USSR Played for San Jose Sharks ( have a Shark's jersey with his autograph on our office hallway wall.)
http://www.geocities.com/ingus_2000/irbe.html
    1969---Top Hits
Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and The Shondells
Everyday People - Sly and The Family Stone
Worst that Could Happen - Brooklyn Bridge
Daddy Sang Bass - Johnny Cash
    1971-The Osmonds, vocal group of five brothers fronted by 13 year old Donny, receives its first gold record for $1 million worth of sales of "One Bad Apple." The song, which many believe is a clear imitation of the Jackson 5, is the Osmonds' debut for Mike Curb's MGM Records.
http://www.osmond.com/
http://www.superseventies.com/1971_5singles.html
http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/o/one_bad_apple_the_osmonds.html
    1977-- Radio Shack officially begins creating the TRS-80 computer
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/
computer.asp?st=1andc=409
See his jersey at:
http://www.earthforums.com/shopping/jerseys-sj-sharks.shtml
    1977---Top Hits
Car Wash - Rose Royce
Dazz - Brick
Hot Line - The Sylvers
Let My Love Be Your Pillow - Ronnie Milsap
    1981-REO Speedwagon, the journeyman band that almost found itself out of deal by the mid-70's, have the biggest album of the year with "Hi-Infidelity," as it goes platinum on this date. It reaches Number One and is there for a total of 14 weeks.
http://www.speedwagon.com/
    1985---Top Hits
I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner
Easy Lover - Philip Bailey with Phil Collins
Careless Whisper - Wham! featuring George Michael
A Place to Fall Apart - Merle Haggard with Janie Fricke
    1989 --- 0ºF (-18ºC) or below in 15 US states.
    1987 - In a "People" magazine poll, readers chose Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant as their favorite, all-time actors.
    1989---Top Hits
Straight Up- Paula Abdul
When I m With You,-Sheriff
Wild Thing- Tone-Loc
Born To Be My Baby- Bon Jovi
    1993-- IRS and Willie Nelson settle on $9 million tax claim of $16.7 million.
http://www.taxfables.com/Columns/Collections/Willie_Nelson.html
http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_fullinfomu.php/music_id=129083/
music2=1/ut=43a1166e76d27a36
    1994---Top Hits
All For Love- Bryan Adams/Rod Stewart/Sting
Hero- Mariah Carey
The Power Of Love- Celine Dion
Breathe Again- Toni Braxton
    1989 - Bitter cold air covered much of the central U.S. Butte MT reported a wind chill reading of 91 degrees below zero, Salt Lake City UT was blanketed with 11.9 inches of snow in 24 hours, and winds around Reno NV gusted to 80 mph. Unseasonably warm weather continued in the southeastern U.S. Twenty-eight cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Wilmington NC with a reading of 80 degrees.
    1995 - Wearing a scarf that belonged to Amelia Earhart and carrying the pilot's license of early endurance flight champion Bobbi Trout, as well as items belonging to members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots who ferried military aircraft in the U.S. during WWII (and died) and from the women who applied and passed initial tests in NASA's Mercury program in the 1950's but were turned down because of their sex, Lt. Colonel Eileen Collins, 38, lifted off from Cape Canaveral in the co- pilot's seat, as the first woman to pilot an American space craft.
    1997-Student bowls 900 series: Jeremy Sonnefeld, 20, from Sioux Falls, SD, bowled a 900 series, three consecutive perfect games, in a touranment in Omaha, NE. Sonnefeld, a sophomore at the University of Nebraska majoring in business, had the series sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress two days later. Two other bowlers had bowled three consecutive perfect games, but neither met the exacting standards required to qualify as a 900 series. In December 1993 Tony Ockerman bowled his games over two sets of competition. In April 1996 Norm Duke bowled his games in the middle of an eight-game block.
http://www.sunvalleylanes.com/900.htm
    1999---Top Hits
..Baby One More Time- Britney Spears
Angel Of Mine- Monica
Have you Ever?- Brandy
Nobody s Supposed To Be Here- Deborah Cox
    2003---Top Hits
All I Have- Jennifer Lopez Featuring LL Cool J
Bump, Bump, Bump- B2K and P. Diddy
Beautiful- Christina Aguilera
I'm With You- Avril Lavigne