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by Kathy WolfeTidbits is taking a look at some familiar folks born during the month of May. Follow along as we take a brief glimpse into their lives. • Sally Ride, the first American woman to go up in space,

saw an ad in the newspaper seeking applicants for the space program and along with 8,000 others, answered the inquiry. At age 28, this young woman with a Ph.D. in physics joined NASA. In 1983, her first memorable flight was taken aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. A second flight followed in 1984, and she was preparing for her third when the Challenger disaster occurred. She left NASA in 1987 and is currently on leave from her pro-fessorship of physics at the University of California and directorship of the California Space Institute.

• May baby Priscilla Beaulieu (born Priscilla Wagner) was just 14 years old in 1959 when she was introduced to El-vis Presley in Germany. Her stepfather, a U.S. Air Force officer, was stationed there, as was Presley, and a young Air Force recruit introduced the pair. Elvis returned to the states the following spring but stayed in contact with Pris-cilla via phone for the next two years. When she turned 21, he married her at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. Six and a half years later, they were divorced.

• You may remember South African runner Zola Budd who, at age 17, broke the women’s 5000 meter world record. She was especially noted for the fact that she ran barefoot. While competing at the 1984 Olympics in the 3000-me-ter race, Budd had three collisions with U.S. runner Mary Decker, with Decker falling, injuring her hip and with-drawing from the race. An international athletic jury found Budd innocent of any wrongdoing in the incident.

• Not too many music fans are familiar with the name Ei-thne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin, but millions have heard the music of Enya. Enya Brennan is an Anglicized approxi-mation of how this Irish singer’s name is pronounced in her native Donegal dialect. As of 2009, her album sales stood at over 70 million. This multi-talented musician performs all the instruments and vocals in the majority of her songs and has sung in 10 different languages in

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• If Enya is No. 2 in Ireland, who’s number one? That honor belongs to another May baby, Paul David Hewson, bet-ter known as Bono. Rolling Stone has ranked him as the 32nd greatest singer of all time, and his band U2 was in-ducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. Back in 1978, while still in high school, Hewson answered a note on the school bulletin board seeking musicians for a rock band that was written by drummer Larry Mullin, and U2 was born. As to why he is rarely seen without sunglasses, Bono states that his eyes are very sensitive to light and swell up and turn red. But that’s not the whole story. In his words: “It’s part vanity, it’s part privacy and part sensitivity.”

• Who hasn’t heard Bing Crosby croon “White Christmas” in his distinctive bass-baritone voice? Born in May, 1903, Crosby was a descendant of Mayflower passenger and Pil-grim spiritual leader William Brewster. At age six, Harry Lillis Crosby became a fan of “The Bingville Bugle,” a column in the Sunday edition of Spokane, Washington’s Spokesman-Review. A 15-year-old neighbor and fellow fan began calling him Bing and the nickname stuck. Cros-by had his first No. 1 hit at age 25. His success continued as 10 of 1931’s top 50 songs featured his voice, either solo or with others. He made 1,700 recordings, and 383 made the Top 30, and 41 were No. 1 on the charts. Known as an avid golfer, he was also part owner of baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates.

• Little did Ken Jennings know when he stepped onto the set of the game show “Jeopardy!” on June 2, 2004, that he would be appearing in 75 episodes and set a record for the longest winning streak on the popular program. During his tenure as champion, the Utah software engi-neer earned $2,520,700, plus $2,000 for second place on the day of his defeat and another $500,000 prize during the program’s Ultimate Tournament of Champions. Bar-bara Walters featured Jennings on her 2004 ABC News Special “The Ten Most Fascinating People of 2004.” In addition, Jennings chronicled his success in a 2006 book “Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Com-pulsive World of Trivia Buffs.”

• At age 24, Tina Fey became a writer at NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” and by 29, she was the head writer. The next year she joined the cast, where she remained six years un-til 2006. She is the creator of the TV series “30 Rock” and is the winner of seven Emmy Awards and three Golden Globes. Her daughter was born in 2005, and she returned to work just one month later, saying, “NBC has me under contract. The baby and I only have a verbal agreement.”

• Clint Eastwood turns 81 this May and seems to have no intention or retiring. He spent his early years in a series of jobs, including lifeguard, grocery clerk, forest firefighter and golf caddy. He was almost 30 before the turn in his career came along with the role of Rowdy Yates in televi-sion’s “Rawhide,” a character he would play for the next six years. After starring in a string of Western movies, he moved on to the “Dirty Harry” films. When Sean Connery left the role of James Bond, it was offered to Eastwood, but he declined, stating that Bond should be played by a British actor. Eastwood has had a lifelong love of music and the piano and has composed the music for many of his films.

• The family of Henry Kissinger fled the persecution of Nazi Germany in 1938 and moved to New York when he was 15. After serving in the U.S. Army for three years (where he was a Bronze Star recipient), he went on to Harvard University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1954. For the next 15 years, he was a member of Harvard’s faculty be-fore entering the political world, serving as the U.S. Sec-retary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford.

1. GOVERNMENT: What do FICA taxes pay for?2. LANGUAGE: What is a wunderkind?3. HISTORY: To what royal house did England’s King Henry VIII belong?4. U.S. STATES: What is Hawaii’s state flower?5. ANATOMY: In what part of the body is the sternum locat-ed?6. MEASUREMENTS: On what type of scale are wind forces measured?7. ROYAL TITLES: How should one address a duke in greet-ing?8. GEOGRAPHY: What U.S. city is known as the “City of Brotherly Love”?9. LITERATURE: What is doggerel?10. MEDICINE: Who is credited with discovering the polio vaccine?

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¥ On May 23, 1701, at London’s Execution Dock, British privateer William Kidd, popularly known as Captain Kidd, is hanged for five charges of piracy and one charge of murdering a crewman. A colorful Kidd legend included reports of lost buried treasure that fortune seekers have pursued for centuries.

¥ On May 24, 1883, after 14 years and 27 deaths while being constructed, the Brooklyn Bridge in New York is opened, the largest suspension bridge ever built to that date.

¥ On May 27, 1894, Dashiell Hammett, author of “The Maltese Falcon,” is born in Maryland. He worked as a Pinkerton detective for eight years and turned his experiences into fiction. The novel was filmed three times: once in 1931; again in 1936 under the title “Satan Met a Lady,” starring Bette Davis; and finally in 1941, starring Humphrey Bogart.

¥ On May 26, 1927, the final and 15 millionth Model T Ford rolls out of the factory, on the official last day of production. Introduced in October 1908, the Model T -- also known as the “Tin Lizzie” -- got about 13 to 21 miles per gallon of gasoline and could travel up to 45 mph.

¥ On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, become the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Ever-est, the highest point on earth. At 29,035 feet above sea level, the low-oxygen summit of Everest reaches two-thirds of the way through the air of earth’s atmo-sphere -- at about the cruising altitude of jet airliners.

¥ On May 25, 1977, George Lucas’ blockbuster mov-ie “Star Wars” opens in American theaters. With its groundbreaking special effects, “Star Wars” was soon a bona-fide pop culture phenomenon, spawning five more feature films, five TV series and an entire in-dustry’s worth of comic books, toys and video games.

¥ On May 28, 1983, Irene Cara’s song “Flashdance (What a Feeling)”, from the “Flashdance” movie soundtrack, goes to the top of the U.S. pop charts. The song helped propel the relatively low-budget film to the No. 3 spot on the total box-office revenue list for the year.

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“Gnomeo & Juliet” (G) -- The director of “Shrek 2,” producer Elton John and Walt Disney Studios present a new take on Shakespeare’s immortal story of two star-crossed lovers in this animated family film. Gno-meo (James McAvoy) and Juliet (Emily Blunt) are dif-ferent colored garden gnomes who live on opposite sides of a backyard fence. Lured by a beautiful orchid, the two meet and immediately fall in love. Their for-

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“The Great Dictator: The Criterion Collection” (G) -- Char-lie Chaplin’s classic satire of Adolf Hitler is now available in a completely remastered high-def, Blu-ray format. Spe-cial features include: commentary by Chaplin historians Dan Kamin and Hooman Mehran; the documentary “The Tramp and the Dictator,” narrated by Kenneth Branagh; on-set color footage shot by Chaplin’s brother Sidney; a book-let featuring an essay about the film, plus a 1940 article by Chaplin discussing the film.

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***Q: I bought a picture at a garage sale by Joseph Wallace King and would like to know more about the artist. -- Car-mela, Elburn, Ill.A: Joseph Wallace King was born in 1911, served in the North Carolina legislature and occasionally painted portraits and pictures with a religious bent. He also was known as a prankster and eccentric. For example, he once hired a woman to ride a horse while wearing a flesh-colored body suit to re-create the famous ride of Lady Godiva, an event he staged to protest property taxes in Winston-Salem. His portraits in-cluded ones of Richard Nixon, Queen Elizabeth and mem-bers of the Royal Saudi family.

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Answers1. Ealing was a jazz and R&B club in London. Brian Jones, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger met there for the first time in 1962 -- the birth of the Rolling Stones.2. The Ramones, in 1976. The record didn’t even chart, but was No. 92 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.3. John Lennon, in 1964. The book is still in print.4. The Runaways, a girl group Jett founded in 1975. Their big hit was “Cherry Bomb” in 1976.5. Rick Astley, in 1987, on his debut album, “Whenever You Need Somebody.” The song shot to No. 1 in 25 countries. Astley retired (at the age of 27) but came back in 2010 with “Lights Out.”6. They were dropped (!!) from the 2010 update of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs List.


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second place in 2008 to Kyle Busch.So far, Edwards, from Columbia, Mo., has finished sixth or better in seven of the nine Sprint Cup races. He has a win and two poles. He’s also won twice in the Nation-wide Series.Edwards leads Jimmie Johnson, winner of the past five championships, by only nine points.“Right now ... it’s all about winning races, learning and performing well enough to lock yourself into the Chase,” said Edwards. “For us to be leading is fun. It feels good, but it’s also about having a little bit of insurance. ... Jim-mie (Johnson) and those guys have been doing really well.“Hopefully we can keep them behind us. That would be nice.”

Brad Pitt is taking on zombies in his latest film! His production company, Plan B Entertainment, had to wrestle “World War Z” away from Leon-ardo Di Caprio’s Appian Way Productions. When two of our best actors are fighting over a zombie movie, you can bet it must be a fantastic script. Based on a Max Brooks book, the story follows Gerry Lane, who travels through a post-zombie war world and interviews survivors. If Paramount

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¥ At any given time, about two-thirds of the earth’s sur-face is covered by clouds. ¥ American author, abolitionist, naturalist, historian and philosopher Henry David Thoreau died on May 6, 1862, of complications of tuberculosis. Those who were with him during his final moments say his last words were “moose” and “Indian.” ¥ The tiny nation of San Marino, which is entirely en-circled by Italy, is the world’s oldest surviving sover-eign state and constitutional republic. It was founded by a stonecutter in the year 301, and the constitution was enacted in 1600 -- the world’s oldest still in effect. ***Thought for the Day: “There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?” -- Kin Hubbard

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Two of Major League Baseball’s greats claim May as their birth month. Willie Mays turns 80 this month, and Yogi Berra will celebrate his 86th birthday. Let’s take a short look at each of their lives and careers. • The professional baseball career of Willie Mays, the “Say

Hey Kid,” began while he was still in high school. He started playing on Tennessee’s minor league Chattanooga Choo-Choos during his summer break in 1947. After a stint in the Negro American League, he joined the New York Giants’ Class B team in 1950. He missed 266 games when he was drafted during the Korean War but was back in the game for the 1954 season. The Giants moved to San Francisco in 1958.

• Many consider Mays to be the greatest all-around player of all time. He played in 24 All-Star games and had a life-time batting average of .302. He ranks fourth on the list of career home runs with 660 and had 3,283 hits. During two seasons, he blasted 50 or more home runs, and he was named “Player of the Decade” for the 1960s.

• One of Mays’ best friends on the Giants was right fielder Bobby Bonds. When Bobby’s son Barry was born in 1964, Mays was asked to be his godfather, and he has remained close to the younger slugger his entire life. (Bobby him-self was no slouch in the home run department, having hit 332 during his career.)

• After 17 years with the Giants, Mays was traded to the New York Mets at age 41. The Giants were in financial trouble, and Mays couldn’t be guaranteed an income after he retired, whereas the Mets had offered him a coaching position upon retirement.

• At his induction into the Hall of Fame in 1979, reporters asked Mays who was the best ball player he had seen over the course of his career. His reply? “I don’t mean to be bashful, but I was.” And in the words of baseball great Ted Williams, “They invented the All-Star Game for Wil-lie Mays.”

• Lawrence Peter Berra’s famous nickname Yogi has noth-ing to do with a bear. His friend told him he looked like a Hindu holy man, or “yogi,” because he always sat with his arms and legs crossed as he waited for his turn at bat. Berra’s parents came to America from Italy, arriving at Ellis Island in 1909 and later settling in St. Louis.

• Berra lost a spot on the St. Louis Cardinals to his best friend Joe Garagiola in 1942. Instead, he played Class B ball until he entered the Navy during World War II, where he served as a Gunner’s Mate during the D-Day invasion.

• Berra has been called the greatest catcher in baseball history. His career with the New York Yankees began in 1946. He played in the All-Star game 15 times, was the league’s MVP three times and appeared in 14 World Se-ries. His lifetime batting average was .285, and he slugged 358 home runs.

• Berra is noted for many memorable quotes, perhaps the most famous being, “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.” Other wise advice was, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” His reason as to why the Yankees lost the 1960 World Series to the Pirates was, “We made too many wrong mistakes.”


ALL MY CHILDRENKrystal was able to get Jack’s mind off Erica by kissing him. Madison began having contrac-tions during an argument with Greenlee. Liza realized that David was still in love with Green-lee. Erica was able to call for help using her cell phone. Scott told Madison that he loved her. Ricky suspected that someone had been searching his room. An explosion went off at the quarry just as Jack arrived to rescue Erica. Wait to See: Opal confronts Erica’s kidnapper.

THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFULBrooke and Thomas were finally reunited with their loved ones after their plane crashed. Oliver

worried that Hope and Liam would soon find their way back to one other. Steffy pressed Thomas to find out what really hap-pened on the island with Brooke. Taylor admitted to Stephanie how comfortable she felt around Ridge. Liam received a text message from Hope that was the complete opposite of their most recent communication together. Brooke had a meltdown during the press conference. Wait to See: Taylor eats one of Thomas’ hallucinogenic berries.

DAYS OF OUR LIVES:Rafe’s imposter was wounded after Sami shot him. Nicole found out that Taylor was staying in town after all. Despite their dif-ferences, Abigail and Melanie approved of their parents dating. Nicole misinterpreted Taylor and Brady’s embrace. The real Rafe began to get some of his memory back as Sami reminisced with him about the past. Dario moved in to the apartment across from Melanie’s. Wait to See: Taylor realizes that Nicole is holding something over EJ.

GENERAL HOSPITALElizabeth decided not to tell Lucky that he was Aiden’s father. Sonny got a lead on Suzanne and Lucian in San Antonio. Maxie found an engagement ring in Matt’s pocket. Lisa created a paper trail to make it look like she and Patrick were having an affair. Mi-chael suspected that Kristina might have a drug problem. Brenda was furious that Sonny asked Carly to accompany him to San Antonio instead of her. Sam was discharged from the hospital after her fertility procedure. Wait to See: Lisa lures Robin to the basement.

ONE LIFE TO LIVEMarty went on a violent rampage by stabbing Kelly, pushing Natalie off the roof of a building and kidnapping Liam. Joey sat vigil by an unconscious Kelly’s bedside and told her how much she meant to him. Jessica’s latest personality was a man she called Wes. Viki made peace with Clint. John realized how much he still loved Natalie. Todd sur-prised Tomas with an unexpected greeting. Wait to See: Bo overhears Clint’s confession.

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESSChloe and Kevin were named the prime suspects in Jana’s death. Michael and Phyllis’ friendship was irreparably damaged after he chose Victoria’s side in the custody dispute. Abby made a drunken fool out of herself at Ashley’s rehearsal dinner. Victor coldly ended his marriage to Diane, not knowing that she had witnessed his tryst with Nikki. Wait to See: Colin’s true intentions are revealed.

PHOTO: Jerry ver Dorn stars as “Clint” on “One Life to Live”

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