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James Moran (1908-1999)
Publicist and press agent and actor.
Time Magazine ranked him as "the supreme master of that most singular marketing device-the publicity stunt."
Notable Stunts
In the 1930s he went to Alaska on behalf of General Electric and sold a refrigerator to an Eskimo.
During an interview on the Vox Pop Radio program he threw eggs at an electric fan.
He once walked a bull through a New York City china shop.
He spent 10 days looking for a needle that had been dropped into a haystack.
To promote the 1947 movie "The Egg And I" he sat on an ostrich egg for 19 days, 4 hours, and 32 minutes.
To publicize a candy bar, he planned to fly a midget across Central Park in a kite, but the police squelched the stunt, prompting Moran to remark, " It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park."
Earle Nelson (1897-1928)
Serial killer who was called "The Gorilla Man" because of his long arms and huge hands.
He was the inspiration for Hitchcock's movie "Shadow Of A Doubt" .
The first commemorative Independence Day fireworks were set off in Philadelphia on July 4th, 1777. That same year, Col. Thomas Crafts set off a fireworks display in Boston.
Emma Hepperman (1894-1968)
She had 7 husbands and poisoned them all.
The earliest known telescope appeared in 1608 in the Netherlands when eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey tried to obtain a patent on one. He did not receive his patent but the news of the new invention spread across Europe.
Doctor By Day, Burglar By Night
Dr. Paul Trotter was a doctor at St. Louis General Hospital who made a meager living treating his patients so he formed a gang of burglars that prowled the city at night robbing homes, some even belonging to the patients he tended to during the day. One night they were shot at and one of them was wounded and carried away to safety where the doctor treated his wound. They were all caught in Chicago in 1909 and given prison sentences.
The highest scoring regular season game in the NBA was the triple-overtime game on December 13, 1983, when the Detroit Pistons beat the Denver Nuggets 186-184.
Solomon Brown (1815?-1874?)
He was the only passenger, along with 8 crew members, to survive the 1845 Cataraqui disaster, Australia's worst shipwreck. 400 people died including his wife and 4 daughters.
I barely remember these clackers. What i really remember was the Eskimo yo yos my father sent me from Alaska. That was fun! You could move the soft fur like balls at the end of the string horizontal or vertical. It took a special maneuver to move them from one to the other but I was able to do it and I loved it. Unfortunately they are lost to time...
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