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When Edith Lauterbach started working as a flight attendant in 1944, women who held the job were referred to as "sky girls" or "coeds," and they could be fired for marrying or gaining weight - or even for reaching the age of 32. As detailed in a 1985 Knight-Ridder News Service article, they had to…
You may not know Reg Presley's name, or that of his rock band, the Troggs. But if you grew up in the mid-1960s and had an AM radio, you instantly would recognize the distinctive growl of his peculiarly half-spoken, half-singing vocal:
Kids today have iPads and Xbox game consoles, but a lot of Baby Boomers had a childhood gadget that we loved just as much, and it didn't even require batteries.
If you're a boomer, the phrase " girl group" probably brings to mind the Shangri-Las or the Supremes (though your children or grandchildren might think of Destiny's Child or TLC).
Back in the 1980s, I moved to California to work at the Orange County Register , where, at the time, the real estate beat was covered by a woman named Jane Glenn Haas. I never knew her very well, but she seemed like one of those old-fashioned newspaper reporters, the ones who'd been cultivating…
If you were a teen or young adult in the 1970s and 1980s, the brand-name Atari was synonymous with cutting-edge cool - and not just because of that classic 1978 TV commercial in which a little kid bests Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Larry Selman had a lot of strikes against him from the start. Weighing just three pounds at birth, doctors thought he wouldn't survive. In high school, he was identified as being developmentally handicapped and dropped out after a teacher told him that he wasn't capable of earning a diploma. The…
Donald F. Hornig was a top science adviser to three Commanders-in-Chief - Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson - and taught at Princeton and Harvard, in addition to serving a six-year stint as president of Brown University. But he achieved his greatest measure of fame as a young…
A half-century ago, George Wallace became famous - some might say infamous - for his pledge, as the governor of Alabama, to " stand in the schoolhouse door" if necessary to prevent African-Americans from getting an education in the same classrooms as whites, even if it meant defying President John…
Back in 1960, a DC-6 airliner took off from an airport in Pittsburgh with the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team aboard, and 30 seconds into the takeoff, one of the plane's prop engines abruptly failed. As an article in Time magazine recounted the incident, the ballplayers, understandably, became…