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This is the introduction of the What's My Line panelists for June 26, 1960. It was the night after a freak accident, originating from Arlene Francis' Manhattan home, in which an unfortunate passerby was killed. Arlene lived in an eighth-floor apartment at the Ritz Tower at the corner of Park Avenue and 57th Street. Eight-pound weightlifting dumbbells were used to prop open a screen window of the apartment where an air conditioning unit had been removed. On the night before this show aired, while Arlene was in Connecticut peforming in a play, a maid accidentally knocked a dumbbell out the window. It struck a luckless pedestrian on the street below and killed him! The victim, Alvin M. Rodecker, a financier from Detroit, was visiting New York City with his wife to celebrate his 60th birthday. (Rodecker's wife noted the last thing her husband said was what a wonderful time he was having.) In 1962 Francis paid Rodecker's estate $175,000 in an out-of-court settlement. The Ritz Tower paid $10,000. John Daly congratulates Arlene on appearing so soon on WML after the awful incident.
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Added: 8th March 2009
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The first black coach in the National Football League was Fritz Pollard who was a player-coach for the Akron Pros during the league's infancy way back in 1921. Pollard lived to a ripe old age: He was 92 when he died in 1986.
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Added: 10th February 2008
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This is the original version of the video. The infamous "blackface" that was removed in is shown in this video...Enjoy
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Added: 19th February 2008
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This electronic song is from the soundtrack to Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," a German film originally released in 1927. This certain film was known as a rarity. One of the many "lost films" of the 1920s. Within a very short time of its German premier, essential parts and pieces of the prints went completely missing for its American audience. This was mostly due to the length of the film all-together. Because of this, it was cut drastically down from its original running time. Over many decades, there have been numerous restored prints made of the shadow-lighted, black and white film. Some of these severely altered prints are still being discovered and restored. "Metropolis" is one movie with strong historic importance for restoration experts. As I previously mentioned, found copies of the 1927 film are being located all the time in various versions, but back in 1984, there was news of a complete 1980s restored version. This was to be released with a "modern feel" to theatres for the first time in years with a big difference.
The 1984 tinted update had a lot of input from 'hot' soundtrack composer Giorgio Moroder. Moroder was responsible for "Flashdance," "Scarface," and "Midnight Express", among other soundtrack films of the 70s, 80s. He also worked alongside with Donna Summer and Blondie. The updated German film was promoted heavily on television on music channels, this which gave it more exposure than one could never possibly imagine years previous. Moroder had a strong musical vision that included adding title cards to explain the silent story, and composing modern songs to the science fiction films retelling soundtrack. He put passion and patience in this film that dealt with corruption. There was much to say about the newly released print. Unexpectently, many critics and naysayers were not impressed with the update of "Metropolis," and now saw it as a hindrance to the actual, original 1927 production. This has made the Moroder reproduced version completely lost on the entertainment market of today. Unless, you own a Beta/VHS videocassette tape, or even a copy of the film on Laser Videodisc. Remember them? Welsh singer, Bonny Tyler was one of the many pop/rock artists on the "Metropolis" recording that Giorgio Moroder mostly wrote especially for the movie. Nowadays, the soundtrack album can be easily found though. Bonny Tyler received a 1984 Grammy nomination for Best Rock Female Vocalist for this song from the revised movie version. Tyler has released the song on various compilations of her work, too. The early 80s released single on itself was most popular in overseas countries. This is compared to North America record buyers. There was another version of this made with Bonnie driving around in a car in London, England. The funny thing about it was that Bonnie got to keep the vehicle. A deal was set up with the manufactured car maker.
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Added: 2nd August 2009
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Joseph Force Crater was an associate judge of the New York Supreme Court. On August 6, 1930, the 41-year-old Crater was in New York City, ostensibly on business, while his wife vacationed without him in Maine. While in New York, Crater spent time with his young showgirl mistress, Sally Lou Ritz. Crater dined with Ritz and a lawyer friend, then they attended a play. When the show ended, Crater's companions got into a taxi and watched Crater walk away...never to be seen again. After several days it was obvious to the judge's wife and colleagues that something was terribly amiss--especially when court reconvened on August 25 with Crater still absent. An investigation was launched. When the story hit the newspapers, a nationwide manhunt began. Naturally, foul play was suspected. On the morning of his disappearance, Crater's assistant had helped the judge cash two checks totaling more than $5,100. The money was put into two locked briefcases and taken to the judge's apartment. Speculation ran along the lines of Crater paying blackmail money. A grand jury trial followed, yielding 975 pages of testimony. It implicated Crater in shady real estate and financial deals, but the authorities had no success in finding any trace of the judge. (Sally Lou Ritz escaped much of the publicity--but not the gossip--when she herself vanished, never to be seen again.) Crater's wife did not return to her New York City apartment until January 31, 1931--where she found a manila envelope addressed to her in the judge's handwriting. It contained his will, $6,619 in cash, several checks, stocks, bonds, life insurance policies, and a hurriedly penned three-page personal note. The envelope had apparently been placed there after the police had searched the apartment. (Three checks were dated August 30--more than three weeks after the judge had vanished!) For several decades the term 'pulling a Judge Crater' was slang for vanishing or leaving an awkward situation discreetly. On August 19, 2005, authorities announced they had obtained a letter written by Stella Ferrucci-Good, who had recently died at age 91. The missive indicated that Judge Crater had been murdered by her late husband, a policeman, and a cab driver friend. Supposedly a skeleton found under the boardwalk at Coney Island in the 1950s was Crater's. An aquarium now occupies the site. The unidentified bones were interred in a mass grave on Hart Island, the usual spot where unclaimed corpses were commonly buried in unmarked plots. However, Ferrucci-Good's story has a major hole: no record exists of a body ever being found under the Coney Island boardwalk.
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Added: 16th September 2009
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Canada's Barabara Ann Scott is photographed doing a 'stag leap' in this photograph from December 1947. Two months later, at age 19, she would win the women's figure skating gold medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. At the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, the 81-year-old Scott was one of the dignitaries who brought the Olympic flag into the stadium.
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Added: 18th February 2010
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This is a photo of Canada's first Olympic hockey team. At the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France in 1924, Canada sent a local amateur team (the Toronto Granites) to compete against the world's best. The results were horribly lopsided, to say the least: Playing three games in three days, Canada overwhelmed their Pool 'A' opponents. The Canadians thumped Czechoslovakia 30-0, Sweden 22-0, and Switzerland 33-0. In the medal round, Canada beat Great Britain 19-2 and the United States 6-1 to capture the gold medals. (Entering that final game, the Americans had outscored Belgium, France, Great Britain and Sweden by an aggregate score of 72-0.) Overall, Canada outscored its five opponents 110-3. Harry Watson scored 37 of Canada's goals. The Canadians' victory was so decisive that Canada was awarded an automatic bye into the final round at the next Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland in 1928. None of the Canadians ever played pro hockey.
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Added: 4th March 2010
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