Jacqueline Susann (1918-74) said, “I don’t think any novelist should be concerned with literature”.
She was the immensely successful author of such fiction bestsellers as Valley of the Dolls (1966), The Love Machine (1969), and Once Is Not Enough (1973).
Democratic candidate Walter Mondale and Republican candidate Robert Dole took part in the first vice-presidential debate during the 1976 Carter-Ford presidential contest.
William O. Douglas (1898-1980), who served 36 years (1939-75), was the Supreme Court Justice who served the longest term. Four justices served 34 years: John Marshall (1801-35); Stephen J. Field (1863-97); Hugo L. Black (1937-71); and William J. Brennan, Jr. (1956-90).
It took eleven days for news of Custer’s last stand to be published in the press. The massacre of George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry by the Sioux Indians took place on June 25, 1876, on the Little Big Horn River in Montana Territory. The news was first published by the Bozeman Times in…
Ronald Reagan served as host and commercial spokesman on the CBS dramatic anthology “General Electric Theater” from 1954 to 1962. The show aired Sundays from 9:00-9:30 P.M. Reagan occasionally starred in the dramas showcased in the series, including “Money and the Minister,” where he acted opposite his wife, Nancy Davis.
Needle Park, the infamous hangout in New York for addicts and dealers in the 1960s and 1970s was Verdi Square Park. It is named for the Italian composer, and occupies a triangular area between Seventy-second and Seventy-third Streets at Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
The man, John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) who set up the Standard Oil Trust also founded the University of Chicago. What university did John D. Rockefeller, Jr., found? The son (1874-1960) of John D. Rockefeller founded Rockefeller University in New York.