Posted in Just A Bite, tagged around the world in 80 days, chesterfield cigarettes, eddie fisher, elizabeth taylor, lucky liz, mike todd, sammy cahn on September 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“[Movie producer Mike Todd, third of Elizabeth Taylor’s husbands] had rented a twin-engine Lockheed Lodestar and renamed it the Lucky Liz, which Elizabeth had decorated for him…. “In March 1958 Mike was to be roasted by the New York Friars Club…. Sammy Cahn had written risque lyrics to ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ that […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia on September 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
North Carolina Public Radio this morning featured a report on efforts to get veteran status for Tar Heels who ferried supplies along the East Coast during World War II. Merchant marines and small boat captains dodged German U-boats in an area off of Cape Hatteras that came to be known as Torpedo Junction. During the […]
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged orville wright, smithsonian on September 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Someone from Dayton, Ohio… visited the towns around eastern North Carolina and handed out flyers with a kindly request asking, ‘Please return whatever parts of the plane you still have, and I [Orville Wright] will send each of you a letter of thanks and a small sliver of wood from the actual plane that made […]
