Uncle Wiggly

...went with it. Their final release was on the Dark Beloved Cloud label, the 1999 all-instrumental disc called Farfetchedness. Uncle Wiggly have featured on many compilation albums, including Rutles Highway Revisited, a tribute to The Rutles,...

In this article: The Rutles, Shimmy Disc, Elk, Mark Kramer, TeenBeat Records, and Fly Ashtray

A North Carolina town, an hour north of the beach where the Wright Brothers completed their first flight, is using thousands of chocolate bars to cultivate a new generation of aviators. Next week in Elizabeth City, Ret. Air Force Col. Gail...

In this article: Gail Halvorsen, Elizabeth City, Douglas C-54, and Wright brothers

Legendary 1940s "Candy Bomber" to Return to North Carolina for First in Flight Festival, Dec. 5 ELIZABETH CITY , N.C. - Last December, Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen had Elizabeth City children jumping for joy when he sailed...

In this article: Gail Halvorsen, North Carolina, Chocolate, Elizabeth City, Elizabeth City Regional Airport, Chewing gum, Candy bar, and Douglas C-54

First Lt. Gail Halvorsen is credited with saving millions of West Berliners from starvation Hot Topics Staff photo by Jim Noelker Berlin airlift veterans (from left) Philip Simmons, Chuck Childs and Bill Perkins walk through the Berlin...

In this article: Joe Stalin, Germany, and U.S. Air Force

'Uncle Wiggly Wings' and Berlin's Candy Bombers Morning Edition, June 26, 2008 · When West Berlin was cut off by Soviet troops 60 years ago, British and U.S. aircraft flew in food, diesel and coal to residents. On the anniversary of the...

In this article: Berlin, Coal, U.S., and NPR

Front cover of Motor Boys Afloat, 1908 edition. The Motor Boys were the heroes of a popular series of adventure books for boys at the turn of the 20th century issued by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym of Clarence Young. This...

In this article: Motor Boys, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Howard Garis, Boxwood Hall, Lost Lake, and Thunder Mountain

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. - From the cockpit of a C-54, U.S. Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen made international news in 1948 when he dropped chocolate bars and gum to West German children, deprived of food and treats through a Soviet-controlled...

In this article: Gail Halvorsen, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, World War II, Berlin, Chewing gum, Wright brothers, DRS Technologies, and U.S. Coast Guard

Grandpa Read's Quiet Time Tales is a series of DVDs for children ages 2-8. In each volume the character of Grandpa Read - played by actor Gary Sturm - reads five classic children's stories and fairy tales aloud while accompanied by original...

In this article: Dog, DVD, Snow White, Robinson Crusoe, and Beauty and the Beast

Susan Hayward plays Lillian Roth in I ll Cry Tomorrow. The Hollywood women s picture of the late 1940s and 50s is inseparable from the suffering figure of Susan Hayward, the Brooklyn-born redhead who starred, frequently supported by a...

In this article: Susan Hayward, Jane Froman, I Am Cuba, Mikhail Kalatozov, Oscar, Broadway, With a Song in My Heart, Daniel Mann, and Lillian Roth

Arun Luthra is a jazz musician (saxophonist, composer, and arranger) based in New York, N.Y., U.S.A. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A. of an Indian father and a British mother. He began his formal music training in Belgium at...

In this article: New York, N.Y., Steve Gorn, New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music, Eddie Henderson, Ze Renato, Dennis Irwin, Lew Soloff, and Billy Harper