In addition to Chuck Yeager, 89 today, and mentioned in previous post, today is the birthday
… of Kim Novak. Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton (Vertigo) and Madge Owens (Picnic) is 79.
… of George Segal. Jack Gallo (Just Shoot Me) and Nick (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) is 78.
… of Carol Lynley. Nonnie Parry (The Poseidon Adventure) and Janet Willard (Blue Denim) is 70.
… of Peter Tork of the Monkees. He’s 70.
… of Elaine Pagels, 69. The Princeton professor (Stanford B.A., Harvard Ph.D.) has written extensively on the Gnostic Gospels.
… of Jerry Springer. He’s 68.
… of Stockard Channing. Abbey Bartlet (West Wing) and Louisa (‘Ouisa’) Kittredge (Six Degrees of Separation) is 68.
… of historian and art historian Simon Schama, 67 today.
… of Mike Krzyzewski. The Duke coach is 65 today.
… of Peter Gabriel. He’s 62.
… of fitness expert Denise Austin, 55.
… of Leslie Feist, 1-2-3-4 … 36 today. She was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada.
William Shockley, who shared in a Nobel Prize for Physics for his role in creating the transistor, was born on this date in 1910. The transistor is the component on which the electronic age is based — we call them semi-conductors and you’re using a whole lot of them to create this page. Shockley earned even more fame for arguing for genetic differences among races — at one point calling for monetary awards if the “genetically disadvantaged” voluntarily underwent sterilization.
Pauline Frederick, the first woman to be a major correspondent for network news, was born on this date in 1908. (She died in 1990.) Frederick was the first woman to win the Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting.
Grant Wood was born on this date in 1891. That’s his “American Gothic.”
Frank Selvy of Furman scored 100 points in a game against Newberry College 58 years ago today. He’s the only one in NCAA Divison I history to hit triple figures. 41 of 66 field goals and 18 of 22 free throws. Remember, no three point shots then. He tossed up a prayer at the buzzer to get to 100.