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Memorial Day
It
is the soldier, not the reporter,
who has given us freedom
of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
who has given us freedom
of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
who has given us the freedom
to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer,
who has given us the right
to a fair trial.
It is the soldier,
who salutes the flag,
who serves under the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester
to burn the flag.
Charles M. Province
Memorial
Day originally commemorated soldiers killed in the Civil War, but the
holiday was later extended to include all U.S. war dead. The custom
of honoring the graves of the war dead, one of the chief activities
of Memorial Day, began before the end of the Civil War.
In
the South, Columbus, Miss., claims the origination of a formal observance
for both the Union and Confederate dead, in 1866. But 100 years later,
the U.S. government proclaimed Waterloo, N.Y., the birthplace of the
holiday. The people of that town first observed Memorial Day on May
5, 1866, to honor Civil War dead. Businesses were closed, graves were
decorated, and flags were flown at half-staff.
Despite
these early celebrations, Memorial Day had no fixed date until 1868,
when Commander in Chief John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic,
an organization of Union Army veterans, issued a general order designating
May 30, 1868, "for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise
decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country
during the late rebellion." Since 1971, most states observe the
federal practice of celebrating the holiday on the fourth Monday of
May, although a few states still observe the May 30 date.
It
is the tradition on Memorial Day to raise the flag to half-mast, to
honor those who have died serving their country,
and then to raise
to
full mast at noon to honor those who are serving their country
today. I will raise the flag in my son Dashiell’s
honor as he
serves
in the U.S. Navy and all the men and women who
protect
our country. Whether any war
is right or wrong, on
Memorial
Day we give special honor to those who serve our
country.
Kit Menkin
My son is part of the Belleau Wood
Expeditionary Strike Group; the
USS
Preble departs next month (see
story:)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20040527-0501-strikegroup.html
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Housing Starts – April 2004
HP
8th Q in Lead/Leasing Helps
BofA
Doug Bowers as Leasing Executive
De
Lage Landen appoints David Knight VP
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release”
(no edition on Monday—See you Tuesday)
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ELA
Leaders Give Industry Update During ELA Super Week
ELTnews ( Equipment Leasing Association)
The ELA Business
Council Directors and Steering Committee Chairman met this month during
ELA Super Week and led the Board in an informal discussion on the state
of the leasing industry. The overarching theme was that “companies have
no pricing power because of imbalances between supply and demand – too
much ‘liquidity’.” The following is a summary report from each business
council:
Middle Market
Independents:
-Diversity of companies,
strategies, markets and products continues to
describe the Middle Market Independents, who consider themselves
to be the most innovative, unique and entrepreneurial of the
membership sectors.
-Volume of business
is rising.
-Many companies in
the sector are technology equipment focused.
-Funding pressures
of past five years are reduced, but some
companies are looking for funding sources with international
capabilities.
-New companies are
entering the marketplace.
-Bonus depreciation
is seen as a “negative,” too attractive for
companies to buy.
Middle Market
Banks:
-Volume is up and
1st quarter results were good.
-There are still
too few deals for the number of companies. Some large ticket money is
shifting into the middle market.
-Institutional footprint
is increasingly defining bank marketing
strategy.
-Strategy of cross
selling to bank customers is taking root.
-Charge off’s and
credit quality is improving.
-The group was not
optimistic about 3rd and 4th Q results.
-There was concern
expressed regarding the emergence of Business
Development Corporations (funds that raise capital to deploy in
loans or leases).
Large Ticket:
-Tax-exempt is down
significantly, as the market virtually shut-down
until some certainty from the enactment of legislation.
Retrenchments and layoffs are widespread. The issue is the impact
of
retroactivity (impacting mindset of the institution and its financials.
-Strong flow of single
investor businesses.
-Traditional financings
- leveraged lease business are inactive due to
small demand, concentration, bad credits, low interest rates, and
low
capacity utilization
Small Ticket:
-UP is the word in
applications, approvals, portfolio performance, and
access to capital.
-Margins are compressing
with rising interest rates.
-Healthcare was mentioned
as specifically favorable.
-Noticeable entrance
of Community Banks.
Vendor / Captive:
-Volume is good,
Business is strong, and the biggest concern for this
segment is financial accounting.
Service Providers:
-Legal is still dominated
by aftermath of recession and low performing
portfolios / bankruptcy, not new business.
-Executive search
still reflects more supply than demand.
-Asset management
business is strong.
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U.S.
Housing Starts – April 2004
(Forecast predicts
interest rates to rise as early as June due to inflation and wholesale
level with housing to remain strong and stable for at least 5 more months.)
Residential construction
pulled back 2.1% in April, to 1.969 million (SAAR). Starts fell for both single family and multi family with single
family falling less than 1% while multi family fell 8.4%. Regionally, problems in the West, down 13.7%,
dragged down total starts as the remaining regions showed growth ranging
from .6% in the NE, 1.2% in the South, and 4.5% in the MW. Permits, an indicator of future activity,
were up 1.2% (1.999 million SAAR) with multi family leading the way
(up 8.3%).
Analysis and outlook: Housing continues to remain strong thanks to
attractive interest rates, an improving job market, and steadily improving
consumer confidence. Single
family activity declined modestly in April, but remains well above its
12 month average of 1.562 million, SAAR (www.economy.com). Near term, housing should remain strong as the supply chain (months
supply) remains small and manageable at less than 5 months for both
new homes and the resale market. That
means there is still plenty of incentive for builders to keep building.
Looking forward,
we know that interest rates will be moving upward with the Fed acting
sooner than later according to most analysts.
The consensus is that they may start as early as the June meeting
as inflation at the retail level (CPI) and wholesale level (PPI) are
increasing. Of course, this is what you would expect with
an improving domestic economy, and a remarkable growth rate in China
over the past several years which is driving wholesale prices up for
most commodities. Until recently,
productivity increases, a weak job market, and excess capacity have
helped to keep a lid on inflation, but that scenario is changing.
The Fed has to try and stay ahead of the inflation curve. That said, housing is expected to remain relatively
strong for the rest of the year although some pullback is expected in
the second half. As we said
before in this column, as long as an improving job market balances rising
interest rates, housing will be OK.
I.e., rising incomes from the job market compensate for higher
interest rates, thus keeping housing affordable.
The latest forecast
from NAHB (April 29) is for total starts to remain about the same this
year as last year, but with steady quarterly pullbacks as we progress
through the year: 1.944 in Q1; 1.856 in Q2; 1.788 in Q3; and 1.756 million
SAAR in Q4.
This slowing trend is expected to continue through 2005 with starts
pulling back to 1.742 million (SAAR), still a pretty good number and
closer to the sustainable trend level.
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Press Release #############################
HP No. 1 in Worldwide Server Shipments for Eighth Consecutive Quarter, Also No. 1
in
Windows, Linux and UNIX Server Revenue
PALO
ALTO, Calif.--, --HP (NYSE:HPQ)(Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced that it
continued its No. 1 position for worldwide server shipments for the
eighth consecutive quarter, according to first quarter calendar year
2004 figures released today by IDC.(1) HP was also No. 1 in revenue
worldwide for the Windows(R), Linux and UNIX(R) server markets.
Fueled
by strong demand for its industry standard HP ProLiant server portfolio,
HP again leads worldwide in x86 server shipments with 31.6
percent
of total units shipped in the quarter, according to the research firm's
data. HP also posted strong revenue growth in the blade, EPIC/ Itanium(R)-based
and Linux server markets.
Other
highlights include:
--
HP is No. 1 in total worldwide UNIX server revenue with 31.1 percent
market share revenue, as well as No. 1 in high-end and midrange UNIX
revenue
--
In the fast growing Windows server market, HP continued to hold the
No. 1 position for revenue for the quarter with 20.7 percent growth
year over year.
--
In the nearly $1 billion Linux market, HP leads in both revenue with
28.8 percent and shipments with 25.5 percent.
--
HP holds the top spot worldwide for combined UNIX, Windows and Linux
server revenue and shipments. Together, these operating systems represent
93.7 percent of all servers shipped in the quarter.
--
Sales of Intel(R) Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers continue to lead
the Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) server segment
with 58.0 percent sequential revenue growth.
--
HP gained two points of revenue market share over its competitors in
the x86 blade server market, the fastest growing server form factor
in the industry.
HP
offers customers one of the broadest server portfolios in the industry,
ranging from ProLiant and Integrity servers to NonStop systems, along
with industry leading storage and management software and services for
the Adaptive Enterprise.
About
HP
HP
is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions
globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing
and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. For the
four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2004, HP revenue totaled $76.8
billion. More information about HP is available at www.hp.com.
(1)
Source: IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, May 2004.
Microsoft
and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. UNIX is
a registered trademark of The Open Group. Intel and Itanium are registered
trademarks of Intel Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and
other countries.
The
information contained herein is subject to change without notice. HP
shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained
herein.
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Press Release ########################
Bank
of America Names Doug Bowers as Leasing Executive
Bank
of America has named Doug Bowers to lead its Bank of America Leasing
business.
Bowers'
appointment as Bank of America Leasing executive was announced by Richard
Higginbotham, president of Bank of America Asset-Based Lending and Leasing.
Bowers is responsible for leading the company's leasing businesses worldwide,
continuing to build its direct lease originations efforts in middle
market, large corporate, vendor, corporate air, municipal, healthcare
and small business. He will be based in Charlotte.
"Doug
brings tremendous experience and credibility to his new role,"
said Higginbotham. "His extensive knowledge of the business, many
years of experience with Bank of America and outstanding leadership
record will help us become the leasing company of choice with our clients
and a growth engine for the company."
Bank
of America Leasing is ranked number one in net assets among U.S bank-
owned leasing companies and has more than 1,000 associates in 62 offices
worldwide. It generates more than $800 million in revenue and has close
to $21 billion in assets. In addition to lease originations, the business
provides equipment management and capital markets services.
"Our
clients look to us for innovative and balance sheet-effective solutions
to their leasing needs," said Bowers. "As part of the Bank
of America family, we obviously bring significant financial strength
and geographic diversity. But we also offer specific industry expertise
and extensive product knowledge and experience. That's a powerful combination
for our clients and Bank of America."
Most
recently, Bowers was managing director of the Bank of America Leasing
and Capital Group and responsible for the company's wholesale leasing
businesses. Prior to that role, he was managing director and co-head
of the General Industrial Group at Banc of America Securities, with
responsibility for banking services provided to clients in the automotive
and transportation, aerospace and defense, chemicals, basic materials
(paper and packaging) and capital goods industries. He also had responsibility
for Middle-Market Investment Banking, the Sports Finance Group and regional
banking teams in Toronto and London.
Previous
to his role at Banc of America Securities he was based in London and
served as president of the company's Europe, Middle East and Africa
businesses. Immediately prior to his London role, Bowers led the bank's
Middle Market Commercial and Investment Banking businesses. Earlier,
Bowers served as head of the Midwest Industrial Banking team and Foreign
Exchange Sales. Bowers earned a bachelor's degree in finance and economics
from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.
Active
in the community, Bowers is a member of the Bank of America Diversity
Advisory Board and was chair of the 2003 Bank of America - Charlotte
Alexis de Tocqueville campaign for The United Way.
Bank
of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving
individual consumers, small businesses and large corporations with a
full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial
and risk-management products and services. The company provides unmatched
convenience in the United States, serving 33 million consumer relationships
with 5,700 retail banking offices, more than 16,000 ATMs and award-winning
online banking with more than ten million active users. Bank of America
is rated the No. 1 Small Business Administration Lender in the United
States by the SBA. The company serves clients in 150 countries and has
relationships with 96 percent of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies and
82 percent of the Global Fortune 500. Bank of America Corporation stock
(ticker: BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. www.bankofamerica.com
.
CONTACT:
Georgina
Morell of Bank of America,
(617)434-5023,
###
Press Release ############################
De Lage Landen appoints David Knight Vice President - National Accounts for its
Materials Handling & Construction Strategic Business Unit
WAYNE,
Pa., - De Lage Landen Financial
Services, a leading international provider of high-quality asset-based
financing products to manufacturers and distributors of capital goods,
has appointed David Knight to the newly created position of Vice President,
National Accounts for its Materials Handling & Construction Strategic
Business Unit.
In this capacity, Knight, of Temecula, CA,
will have overall responsibility for the business unit's national accounts
distribution channel, including Fortune 1000 customers.
He will report directly to Bill Hall, Vice
President and General Manager of the Materials Handling & Construction
SBU.
A 23-year veteran of the leasing industry,
Knight spent 14 years at Toyota Financial Systems, in Torrance, CA in
management positions of increasing responsibility. This included 10
years as a National Commercial Finance Manager.
He attended the University of Nebraska.
De Lage Landen International B.V. is a Netherlands-based
international provider of high-quality asset financing products. With
a presence in more than 20 countries across the globe, the company focuses
on the following industries: Food & Agriculture, Healthcare, Office
Equipment, Telecommunications, Technology Finance, Materials Handling
& Construction and Financial Institutions. In its domestic market
the company offers Equipment Leasing, Consumer Finance, Car & Commercial
Vehicle Leasing, ICT Leasing and Trade Finance through local Rabobanks
and direct to market.
De Lage Landen is a wholly owned subsidiary
of the Dutch Rabobank Group that is AAA-rated by Moody’s and Standard
& Poor’s. In 2003 De Lage Landen grew its profits to $129.7 million
(€114.8 million) and its balance sheet total to $17.8 billion (€14.1
billion).
For more information, please visit our Website:
www.delagelanden.com
###
Sites
of Reference:
CONTACT:
Ronald
Slaats
De
Lage Landen Financial Services
Phone
Number: 610 386 5023
Fax
Number: 610 386 5840
E-mail:
rslaats@leasedirect.com
### Press Release ##############################
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billion in total assets. Headquartered in Green Bay, WI . Associated
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News
Briefs---
Economy
grows at 4.4 percent rate in first quarter, faster than previously estimated
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040527-1428-economy.html
Profits
rise as economy expands
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/gdp/2004-05-27-q1-rev-gdp_x.htm
Jobless
Claims Down Less Than Expected
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/05/27/jobless_claims_down_less_than_expected/
Mortgage
Rates Rise Slightly
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/28/business/28rate.html
Gas
prices are likely to stay high
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NY
Times Reports “American Idol” Off 25% in Viewers from Last Year
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/28/business/media/28tube.html
The
best and the worst of 'Idol'
http://www.accessatlanta.com/entertainment/content/entertainment/tv/0504/
28moments.html?urac=n&urvf=10857281878510.2079966748299743&urcm=y
Dialing
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Sports
Briefs---
Bryant,
O'Neal Help Los Angeles Take a Commanding 3-1 Lead: Lakers 92, Timberwolves
85
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62141-2004May27.html
Tampa
Bay deadlocks title round
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/hockey/cup/2004-05-27-flames-lightning-game2-finals_x.htm
Davidson
having twice the fun
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California
Nuts Brief---
Two
polls give Schwarzenegger high marks
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upi&Sys=rmmiller&Fid=NATIONAL&Type=News&Filter=National%20News
“Gimme
that Wine”
Marketers
put low-carb spin on California wines
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/27/WIG6J6RKHF1.DTL
Wine
in cans, Dylan wine, low-carb - what's next?
http://www.sacbee.com/content/lifestyle/taste/story/9430408p-10354589c.html
Mendocino
grape growers urged to capitalize on world interest in natural, unaltered
ag. products
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/news/27mendowine.html
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This
Day in American History
1732-protecting
the environment, and particularly the fishing industry is not new. New
York City enacted a law for “preserving fish in fresh water ponds...Fishing
by hoop-net, draw-net, purse-net, catching-net, cod-net, bley-net or
with any other engine machine, arts, or ways and means whatsoever, other
by an by angling with angle-rod, hoot, and line, was subject to a fine
of 20 shillings.”
1754-the
first bloodshed in the French and Indian War occurred on an isolated
mountainside a few miles east of Uniontown, PA. Lieutenant Colonel George
Washington, at the head of several companies of Virginia militia, reached
the Monogahela River and overtook a French reconnoitering party from
Fort Duquesne ( the future site of Pittsburgh).
Jumonville, the French commander was slain and his force captured.
1807-birthday
of Louis Agassiz, professor of zoology and geology at Harvard, born
at Motier, Switzerland. He was a major influence in spawning American interest
in natural history and helped to establish the Harvard Museum of Comparative
Zoology. “ The eye of the trilobite,” Aggassiz wrote in 1870, “ tells
us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is
nothing in nature without a purpose and when so complicated an organ
was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it.”
Died at Cambridge, MA, Dec. 17,1873. http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/ARLab/HypogeanFishes/bio_agassiz.htm
1814-birthday
of Daniel Reaves Goodloe, emancipatist; A Crusading Abolitionist in
Reconstruction North Carolina
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/goodloe/title.html
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/goodloe/menu.html
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/g/Goodloe,Daniel_R.html
1831-birthday of Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railroad conductor, “known as the Julie Ward Howe of the Negro race.”
http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs-b/wwm97253/@Generic__BookTextView/2438
1851-The
Ohio Woman's Rights Convention met in Akron, an historic
meeting of women
calling for equal rights.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may28.html
1855-
Abby Leach birthday; U.S. teacher whose profound knowledge of Greek
impressed Harvard professors enough to open their doors a crack in 1879
for women through what they called the Harvard Annex. It would become
Radcliffe College.
http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/macurdyperformance.html
http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/life.html
http://www.radcliffe.edu/quarterly/199902/rad_har-5.html
1858-
Lizzie Black Kander birthday - U.S. philanthropist. Thousands of immigrants
and poor in the Milwaukee area received a help because of this remarkable
woman. Starting with organizations
that distributed food and clothing to needy immigrants, she helped form
and headed the city's first settlement house (1900-1918). As a 1901 fund-raiser, she supervised the printing
of a cookbook. She expanded it and used the profits for charity. Still
in print many years after Lizzie's death in 1940, The Settlement Cook
Book, Treasured Recipes of Seven Decades, sold more than a million copies
in 23 editions.
http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Kander_Lizzie_Black.html
http://www.jsonline.com/Entree/cooking/apr01/settle18041601.asp
http://www.uwm.edu/Library/arch/jews/image7.htm
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/oss/lessons/lafollette/pdfs/lizziespeech.pdf
1863-The
54th Massachusetts Infantry, the most famous African- American regiment
of the war, leaves Boston for combat in the South. For the first two
years of the war, President Abraham Lincoln resisted the use of black
troops despite the pleas of men such as Frederick Douglass, who argued
that no one had more to fight for than African Americans. Lincoln finally
endorsed, albeit timidly, the introduction of blacks for service in
the military in the Emancipation Proclamation. On May 22, 1863, the
War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops to recruit and
assemble black regiments. Many blacks, often freed or escaped slaves,
joined the military and found themselves usually under white leadership.
Ninety percent of all officers in the United States Colored Troops (USCT)
were white.Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the idealistic scion of an abolitionist
family, headed the 54th. Shaw was a veteran of the 2nd Massachusetts
infantry and saw action in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley and Antietam campaigns.
After being selected by Massachusetts Governor John Andrew to organize
and lead the 54th, Shaw carefully selected the most physically fit soldiers
and white officers with established antislavery views. The regiment
included two of Frederick Douglass's sons and the grandson of Sojourner
Truth.
On May 28, 1863,
the new regiment marched onto a steamer and set sail for Port Royal,
South Carolina. The unit saw action right away, taking part in a raid
into Georgia and withstanding a Confederate attack near Charleston.
On July 16, 1863, Shaw led a bold but doomed attack against Fort Wagner
in which he and 20 of his men were killed. The story of Robert Gould
Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts was immortalized in the critically acclaimed
1990 movie Glory, starring Mathew Broderick, Denzell Washington, and
Morgan Freeman.
http://extlab1.entnem.ufl.edu/olustee/54th_MS_inf.html
http://www.fatherryan.org/blackmilitary/54th.htm
1879-Illionis
prohibited employment of women in coalmines in their state.
The first law enacted
in the United States to protect women in employment.
1880
-Savoy, Texas was hit by an f4 tornado. 14 people were killed and 60
were injured. It leveled the entire business and northeast residential
sections. The tornado was described as "a funnel blazing with balls
of fire".
1892---the Sierra Club was founded by famed naturalist John Muir. The Sierra Club promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy. It has been especially important in the founding of and protection of our national parks.
1888-birthday of James Francis “Jim” Thorpe, Olympic gold medal track athlete, baseball player and football player born at Prague, OK. Thorpe, a Native American, won the4 pentathlon and the decathlon of the 1912 Olympic games, but later lost his medals when Olympic officials declared a stint as a minor league baseball player besmirched his amateur standing. He later played professional baseball and football and was acclaimed the greatest male athlete of the first half of the 20th century. Died at Lomita, CA, Mar 28, 1953( Thorpe’s medals were returned to his family many years after his death when the earlier decision was reversed.)
http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/history/ThorpeAthleteOfTheCentury.htm
http://www.alphacdc.com/necona/athlete_of_the_century.html
(lower half of: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may28.html
)
1898-birthday
of great bandleader Andy Kirk, Newport, KY.
http://www.redhotjazz.com/cloudsofjoy.html
http://mesl.itd.umich.edu/a/afroammuakirk/
1900-Trumpet
player Tommy Ladnier Birthday http://www.redhotjazz.com/Ladnier.html
http://atj.8k.com/noartist/atjladnier.html
1910—birthday
of singer/pianist/song writer Aaron Thibodaux “ T-Bone “Walker, Linden,
TX. Died March 15,1975
http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=206
http://www.tpoint.net/~tbone1/blues/bios/tbone.html
http://bluesnet.hub.org/artists/tbone.html
1912—birthday
of guitarist David Barbour, Flushing, NY http://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/late0202.htm
1917-General
John Joseph Pershing lead members of the American Expeditionary Force
to fight in Europe, America’s first entrant into this war. The group
included 40 regular army officers, 17 reserve officers, 2 Marine Corps
officers, 67 enlisted men, 36 field clerks, 20 civilians, 3 interpreters,
and 3 news correspondents. They left New York City on the “Baltic” and
arrived in Liverpool England, on June 8, and reached Paris on June 13. The United States had been in a state of war
with Germany since April 6, 1917, when it became the 13th
national to declare war against the Central Powers.1922 - Otto Krueger
conducted the Detroit News Orchestra, the first known radio orchestra,
which was heard on WWJ Radio in Detroit, MI. The "Detroit News"
owned the radio station at the time.
1928
- Walter P. Chrysler merged
his Chrysler Corporation with Dodge Brothers, Inc. The Dodge Motor Car
Company had been purchased several years earlier, from the widows of
the two founders, by Clarence Dillon's banking firm for $148 million.
The merger of Chrysler and Dodge, the largest automobile industry merger
in history at the time, placed the newly consolidated firm third in
production and sales, just behind General Motors and Ford Motor Company.
Their vehicles have always been popular with law enforcement, the Blues
Brothers, and my son drives a Dodge truck, which he swears is the best
made in the industry.
1929 - Warner Brothers debuted the first all-color talking picture. The film debuted at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City. Ethel Waters, Joe E. Brown, Betty Compson and Arthur Lake starred in "On With the Show," based on a story by Humphrey Pearson. 1931-birthday of guitarist Sonny Burgess, Newport, AR
http://www.deltaboogie.com/deltamusicians/burgess.htm
1931
- WOR radio in New York City premiered "The Witch’s Tale".
The program was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System (of which
WOR was the flagship station) where it aired until 1938. My late father Lawrence Menkin started out
as a radio writer, and wrote many of these and soap operas. In the late
1940’s, he became general manager of WOR-TV, producing the first early
television drama’s, such as “Harlem Detective,” “Hands of Murder,” and
the first “Captain Video,” all shows he created, wrote, produced and
directed.
1934
- The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callender, Ontario to Oliva
and Elzire Dionne. They were the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
This increase in Canada’s population became known as Marie, Cecile,
Yvonne, Emilie and Annette. All five survived into adulthood, Cecile,
Annette, Yvonne, Emilie and Marie.
Their father, Elzire, signed to have them exhibited at the Chicago
World's Fair only hours after they were born without permission from
their mother. The Ontario provincial government intervened on behest
of the doctor who delivered them. The government took custody of the
children in what has been described more as a political move than a
humanitarian one, and yet, at the time, it was a popular decision because
of the family's poverty and the father's willingness to exploit the
children in unsafe ways. The
doctor became a wealthy man acting as their caretaker as he, as the
government's representative, housed them in a modern home (across the
road from the Dionne home) and showed them to the public from the porch.
He and the government used their names and celebrity status in various
ways to make millions. Hardly anyone around these children acted in
their interest.
It took until 1997 for the surviving sisters to win monetary awards
from the Canadian government for its exploitation of them. Their mother
was not allowed any more intimacy with them than a tourist and she had
no legal rights to claim them under the church dominated laws of the
time in that area.
http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~terning/bios/Dionne.html
http://www.city.north-bay.on.ca/quints/digitize/dionne.htm
http://community9.webshots.com/photo/33346894/33347128rFHWvk
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/971201/box2.html
1935-John
Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat is published. The novel's endearing comic
tone captured the public's imagination, and the novel became a financial
success.
Steinbeck's next
works, In Dubious Battle and Of Mice and Men, were both successful,
and in 1938 his masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath was published. The novel,
about the struggles of an Oklahoma family who lose their farm and become
fruit pickers in California, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. Steinbeck's
work after World War II, including Cannery Row and The Pearl, became
more sentimental. He also wrote several successful films, including
Forgotten Village (1941) and Viva Zapata! (1952). He became interested
in marine biology and published a nonfiction book, The Sea of Cortez,
in 1941. His travel memoir, Travels with Charlie, describes his trek
across the U.S. in a camper. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962 and
died in New York in 1968.
1938-Benny
Goodman records “Big John Special.” Two points if you know who “Big
John” was (If you were a jazz fan, you would know. If not,
go here: http://jewishpeople.net/bennygoodman.html).
Other sites about the “King of Swing,” who also was a fine symphonic clarinetist.
http://www.davidmulliss.com.au/BennyGoodman/intro.htm
http://www.davidmulliss.com.au/BennyGoodman/benny.htm
http://www.nw-cybermall.com/JazzWorld/goodman.htm
http://www.koger.sc.edu/goodman.html
1938-birthday
of former coach and basketball Hall of Fame guard Jerry Alan West, Cheylan,
WV.
1939-
Helen Hadassah Levinthal birthday, becomes the first Jewish woman to
receive a degree from a Jewish college of theology. She received a Master
of Hebrew Literature from the Jewish Institute of Religion.
1941
- Frank Sinatra joined Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra in recording "This
Love of Mine" for Victor Records.
1944-birthday
of Rudolph Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, born Brooklyn, NY.
http://bulletin.credit-suisse.ch/themen/1017081670.html
1944-Gladys
Knight, singer, born Atlanta, GA. The first hit was in 1961 with "Every
Beat of My Heart." Her group continued to record hits throughout
the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Among their best-known songs are "I
Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1967), "Midnight Train to
Georgia" (1973), and "Love Overboard" (1987).
http://www.ldsmusician.com/artists/gladys_knight.html
1945-birthday of guitarist/song writer John Fogerty, Berkeley, CA
http://www.johnfogerty.com/main.php
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/6508/fogerty.htm
1948---Top
Hits
Nature Boy - Nat
King Cole
Now is the Hour -
Bing Crosby
Baby Face - The Art
Mooney Orchestra
Texarkana Baby -
Eddy Arnold
1951-After
failing to get a hit in his first three major league games, Willie Mays
of the New York Giants broke his 0-for-12 skein by hitting a home run
off Warren Spahn of the Boston Braves.
1953
- The first 3-D (three-dimensional) cartoon world premier at the Paramount
Theatre in Hollywood, California and downtown Paramount Theatre, LA.
The production, a Walt Disney creation/RKO picture, was titled, "Melody".
1955-birthday
of Ronald Lawrence (Ron” Wilson, hockey coach, born, Windsor, Ontario,
Canada.
1955-"The
Ballad of Davy Crockett" is the most popular song in the United
States. Billboard refers to the tune as "disc entity" and
reports if the sales of the other versions were all added up, including
the original done by Fess Parker, more than 18-million copies have been
bought in six months.
1956---Top
Hits
Heartbreak Hotel/I
Was the One - Elvis Presley
The Wayward Wind
- Gogi Grant
The Happy Whistler
- Don Robertson
Blue Suede Shoes
- Carl Perkins
1957
- National League club owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to
move to sunny Southern California and said that the New York Giants
baseball team could move with the Horace Stoneham family to Northern
California. The teams went on to establish themselves in Los Angeles
and San Francisco.
1957
- The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) was established.
This is the organization that brings us the Grammy Awards for all forms
of musical entertainment each year.
1958
- The American League voted to divide itself into two divisions and
reduce its schedule to 156 games.
1959
- Abel and Baker were two one pound monkeys, one a rhesus, the other a spider monkey,
survived a 15-minute flight
trip into space in separate containers in the nose cone of Jupiter rocked
launched at Cape Canaveral, FL. The cone was hot 300 miles into space
and was recovered about 90 minutes later off the island of Antiqua,
about 1,500 miles away, by Navy frogmen from the tug Kiowa.
A previous attempt made on December 13,1958, has been unsuccessful.
1959-birthday of former football coach and player, David Donald Shula, Lexington,KY.
http://www.donshula.com/davecareer.htm
1963
-- Medgar Evers gets agreement of negotiations in the All-American city
of Jackson, Mississippi — which is then withdrawn; four students and
a professor harassed during sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter. A few
days earlier the garage
of his house was
bombed and on June 12, a few
hours after President John F. Kennedy had made an extraordinary broadcast
to the nation on the subject of civil rights, Medgar Evers was shot
and killed in an ambush in front of his home. Byron de La
Beckwith, a white segregationist, was charged with the murder. He was
set free in 1964 after two trials resulted in hung juries but was convicted
in a third trial held in 1994.
1964---Top
Hits
My Guy - Mary Wells
Love Me Do - The
Beatles
Chapel of Love -
The Dixie Cups
My Heart Skips a
Beat - Buck Owens
1966
- Percy Sledge hit number one with his first -- and what turned out
to be his biggest -- hit. "When a Man Loves a Woman" would
stay at the top of the pop music charts for two weeks. It was the singer’s
only hit to make the top ten and was a million seller.
1966-Ike
and Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High" is released.
It stays on the chart for four weeks and reaching as high as #88. The
record's producer Phil Spector considers the song the high point of
his legendary production career and is so embittered by it not doing
well in America that he would go into seclusion for two years.
1966-The
Temptation's "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" is released and enters
the Hot 100, where it will stay for thirteen weeks, peaking at #13.
It will later be covered by the Rolling Stones on their album "It's
Only Rock n' Roll, and will be a hit for them as well.
1968-The
American League announced that it would split into two divisions for
the 1969 season. Teams in the
AL East included the Baltimore Orioles, the Boston Red Sox, the Cleveland
Indians, the Detroit Tigers, the New York Yankees and the Washington
Senators. The AL West was comprised of the California Angeles, the Chicago
White Sox, the Kansas City Royals, the Minnesota Twins, the Oakland
Athletics and the Seattle Pilots.
1972---Top
Hits
Oh Girl - Chi-Lites
I’ll Take You There
- The Staple Singers
Look What You Done
for Me - Al Green
(Lost Her Love) On
Our Last Date - Conway Twitty
1975
- The Doobie Brothers went gold with the album, "Stampede".
The group, formed right here in San Jose, CA, recorded 16 charted hits.
Two made it to number one, becoming million-selling, gold record winners:
"Black Water" [March, 1975] and "What a Fool Believes"
[April, 1979].
1978-the
first Casino outside the state of Nevada opened in Atlantic City, NY,
after the state’s voters approved legalized casino gambling in 1977.
Resorts International opened the casino in a hotel on the Atlantic
City boardwalk. The first week’s take was $2.6 million.
1980---Top
Hits
Call Me - Blondie
Funkytown - Lipps,
Inc.
Don’t Fall in Love
with a Dreamer - Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes
Starting Over Again
- Dolly Parton
1982
- The legendary train, "Orient Express", made popular through
Agatha Christie’s thrilling mystery novel, "Murder on the Orient
Express", was reborn. The 26-hour train trip resumed across the
European continent after a long respite. While I have never had the
pleasure, I am told by people who rode it, it was a great trip I know several chefs on the West Coast who said they learned
to cook on this train, where food and wine was “the best,” they told
me.
1985
- Gay Mullins, a retiree from Seattle, WA, founded Old Cola Drinkers
of America. This was an effort to bring back the original Coca-Cola,
instead of the New Coke that the Atlanta-based company had foisted on
the American cola-drinking market. By July of 1985, with arms firmly
twisted behind their backs, Coca-Cola Company executives relented ,
kept the new formula on the market, but returned with: Classic Coke.
1985
- "Vanity Fair" magazine, with a picture of President Ronald
Reagan and First Lady Nancy kissing on the cover, went on sale.
Whether you area Republican or Democrat, their “love affairs”
was genuine, as expressed
in this book, “ I Love You, Ronnie.”
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0375505547
/reviews/ref=pm_dp_ln_b_6/103-4369609-9927846
1986-Viewers
of Dick Clark's "America Picks the #1 Songs" chose Bill Haley's
"Rock Around the Clock," "Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge
Over Troubled Water" and Lionel Richie's "All Night Long"
as the greatest hits of the rock era.
1987
-Thunderstorms produced torrential rains in Oklahoma and Northern Texas.
Lake Altus, Oklahoma was deluged with 9 inches of rain. Up to 8 inches
of rain drenched Northern Texas and baseball size hail was reported
north of Seminole and at Knickerbocker. 10 To 13 inches of rain inundated
central Oklahoma over the last 5 days of the month resulting in an estimated
65 million dollars damage. Flooding forced several thousand people to
evacuate their homes, many by boat or by helicopter.
1988---Top
Hits
One More Try - George
Michael
Shattered Dreams
- Johnny Hates Jazz
Naughty Girls (Need
Love Too) - Samantha Fox
Eighteen Wheels and
a Dozen Roses - Kathy Mattea
1989
- Unseasonably hot weather continued in Florida. Five cities reported
record high temperatures for the date. The record high of 98 degrees
at Lakeland, FL, was their fifth in a row. Thunderstorms produced severe
weather in Florida late in the day, with golf ball size hail reported
at Kissimmee.
1996
-In a 12-8 win at the Kingdome, Orioles' third baseman Cal Ripken has
his first career three-homer game and collects a career-high eight RBIs.
1998--
First Hawaiian Inc. and BancWest Corp. joined forces to create a $14
billion banking major banking entity based in the western United States.
The merger, which cost around $1 billion, gave First Hawaiian's stockholders
a small majority stake in the new institution.
2000-
The Angels, for the first time in franchise history, hit four home runs
in one inning. Anaheim goes yard four times in the fifth inning with
Darin Erstad, Mo Vaughn, Tim Salmon and Garret Anderson supplying the
fireworks in the 11-4 victory.
2003
-When Rafael Furcal, Mark DeRosa and Gary Sheffield all go deep off
Reds' Jeff Austin in the bottom of the first inning, the Braves become
only the second team in big league history to begin a game with three
consecutive home runs.
Baseball
Poem
The
Night Game
by
Robert Pinsky
Some
of us believe
We
would have conceived romantic
Love
out of our own passions
With
no precedents,
Without
songs and poetry--
Or
have invented poetry and music
As
a comb of cells for the honey.
Shaped
by ignorance,
A
succession of new worlds,
Congruities
improvised by
Immigrants
or children.
I
once thought most people were Italian,
Jewish
or Colored.
To
be white and called
Something
like Ed Ford
Seemed
aristocratic,
A
rare distinction.
Possibly
I believed only gentiles
And
blonds could be left-handed.
Already
famous
After
one year in the majors,
Whitey
Ford was drafted by the Army
To
play ball in the flannels
Of
the Signal Corps, stationed
In
Long Branch, New Jersey.
A
night game, the silver potion
Of
the lights, his pink skin
Shining
like a burn.
Never
a player
I
liked or hated: a Yankee,
A
mere success.
But
white the chalked-off lines
In
the grass, white and green
The
immaculate uniform,
And
white the unpigmented
Halo
of his hair
When
he shifted his cap:
So
ordinary and distinct,
So
close up, that I felt
As
if I could have made him up,
Imagined
him as I imagined
The
ball, a scintilla
High
in the black backdrop
Of
the sky. Tight red stitches.
Rawlings.
The bleached
Horsehide
white: the color
Of
nothing. Color of the past
And
of the future, of the movie screen
At
rest and of blank paper.
"I
could have." The mind. The black
Backdrop,
the white
Fly
picked out by the towering
Lights.
A few years later
On
a blanket in the grass
By
the same river
A
girl and I came into
Being
together
To
the faint muttering
Of
unthinkable
Troubadours
and radios.
The
emerald
Theater,
the night.
Another
time,
I
devised a left-hander
Even
more gifted
Than
Whitey Ford: A Dodger.
People
were amazed by him.
Once,
when he was young,
He
refused to pitch on Yom Kippur.
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