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Actress: Shirley Temple
It’s hard for us to imagine now what a huge star Shirley Temple was. We don’t have a parallel – in fact, we never have....
Read MoreKid Stuff: Raggedy Ann
Decades before Cabbage Patch, before Barbie, and before Betsy Wetsy, American girls had a favorite doll. She didn’t come with a birth...
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Food: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Peanut butter and Hershey’s milk chocolate. It’s not a complicated thing. Two very popular ingredients that came...
Read MoreTravel: Vail, Colorado
It’s not because Vail is the largest single-mountain ski resort in the United States. And it’s certainly not because Vail Ski...
Read MoreAmericana: Consumer Reports
It doesn’t take advertising, so no company can influence its editorial product. And it buys every item it tests at retail, so it...
Read MorePerson: Edward R. Murrow
Had Adolph Hitler not chosen to subjugate England during the blitz of 1939, Edward R. Murrow might be just another forgotten wartime...
Read MoreSong: "Respect"
Aretha Franklin (Great American Things, July 18, 2009) was already a star before she released “Respect.” But this went all the...
Read MoreSports: John Wooden
Under coach John Wooden, UCLA won seven consecutive NCAA men’s basketball championships, and ten in the twelve years between 1964 and...
Read MoreFilm: The Sixth Sense
“I see dead people.” One of the best-known taglines in movie history also summed up the main storyline in four words. The Sixth...
Read MoreAmericana: Advertising Jingles
The older you are, the more of these ditties you have rattling around your brain. And just when you think you’ve put them away...
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