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FAMOUS FIRSTSby Kathy Wolfe

This week Tidbits looks at the originals, the pioneers, the earliest – all those who made history by being the first to hit the scene.

• Established in 1636, Harvard is America’s first in-stitution of higher learning. The college, originally just for men, was founded 16 years after the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, with an enrollment of nine stu-dents. The institution owes its name to its first bene-factor, John Harvard, a minister who bequeathed his library and half his worth to the college. Seven U.S. presidents are Harvard graduates, as well as 40 No-bel Prize winners. • Alan Shepard was the first American in space, but not the first human in space. That distinction belongs to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who rocketed into space on April 15, 1961, a mere three weeks before Shepard’s May 5th flight. Nine months later, astro-naut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, circling the globe three times in just under five hours. That wasn’t to be Glenn’s final record-break-ing flight. At age 77, he spent nine days aboard the space shuttle, Discovery, testing the effects of space on the elderly.

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Author Hans Christian Andersen once said, “One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” Tidbits looks at how songwriters have incorporated that belief into their music over the years.

• Hundreds of artists from Bing Crosby to Bob Dylan have recorded the old favorite “You Are My Sunshine.” It was first recorded in 1939. Years later, Ray Charles’ version hit Number One on the charts. It was even sung by Paul McCartney to Johnny Carson during a 1984 Tonight Show broad-cast. • Only one person is a triple inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Guitarist Eric Clapton has been honored for his work in The Yardbirds, Cream, and as a solo artist. It was during his tenure with Cream that he recorded “Sunshine of Your Love,” voted by Rolling Stone magazine as the 65th greatest song of all time on their list of the Top 500.• Rolling Stone’s Top 500 list features Bill With-ers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone” at Num-ber 280. Withers was a 31-year-old factory worker making toilet seats for airplanes when he recorded this Grammy-winning tune. The phrase “I know” is repeated 26 times in one section of the song. It was Wither’s intention to pen more lyrics there, but fel-low musicians advised him to leave it alone. • In slot #281 of the Top 500 is Stevie Wonder’s “You Are the Sunshine of My Life,” a Grammy win-ner recorded in 1973. He composed the song for his future wife, who had been the secretary at the Motown Records office. The first two lines of the song are not sung by Wonder, but rather by vocal-ists James Gilstrap and Lani Groves.• John Denver was in Minnesota in 1973 on what he described as a “dreary day, gray and slushy. The snow was melting and it was too cold to go out-side.” He used the day instead to pen “Sunshine on My Shoulders” while in a “very melancholy frame of mind.” He probably cheered up when the song reached Number One on the Billboard charts in 1974. • “Let the Sunshine In,” part of a medley with “The Age of Aquarius,” was actually the last verse of a song called “The Flesh Failures.” Both melodies were from Hair, the first rock opera, which debuted in the late 1960s. The hippie era opera had an anti-Vietnam War and anti-government theme. The 5th Dimension recorded the song in 1969, and it held fast to the number one position on the charts for six weeks. In 2008, it hit the spotlight once again as the theme song for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama.• Jonathan Edwards didn’t “feel much like dancin’” when he wrote the 1971 song “Sunshine, Go Away Today.” It was another war protest song that met with the resounding approval of those who object-ed to the Vietnam War and the draft imposed by Richard Nixon. “Sunshine” made it big as a result of an accident. Another of Edwards’ songs, “Please Find Me,” was supposed to be featured on his al-bum, but somehow the recording engineer erased it. After spending hours looking for it, “Sunshine” filled the gap and subsequently became Edwards’ biggest hit. (By the way, the engineer was fired.)

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DOG OF THE WEEK“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” (PG-13) -- Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is pushed back in front of the camera to stumble through a few more tropical locales for this fourth installment of the rapidly deteriorating “Pirates of the Caribbean” series. This time, Captain Spar-row is forced into service with the legendary Black-beard and a beauty named Angelica (Penelope Cruz). That’s about where the writing staff gave up, because everything beyond that is a mess of a paper-thin plots and here-we-go-again adventure.Way back in 2003, the first “Pirates” was an exhila-rating surprise of a cinematic journey. Since then, each movie has pulled that magic apart by the seams. Even the additions of the gorgeous Cruz as a new romance and the menacing Ian McShane as Blackbeard couldn’t keep this one afloat. Like the mutterings of Sparrow himself, this franchise has descended into an incoherent jumble of sail-orisms and fading charm.

TV SERIES“V: The Complete Second Season”“Thundercats: Seasson 1”“American Pickers: Volume Two”“Top Shot: Reloaded -- Season 2”

TOP TEN MOVIES1. The Lion King 3D (G) animated2. Moneyball (PG-13) Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill3. Dolphin Tale (PG) Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd4. Abduction (PG-13) Taylor Lautner, Lily Col-lins5. Killer Elite (R) Jason Statham, Clive Owen6. Contagion (PG-13) Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard7. Drive (R) Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan8. The Help (PG-13) Viola Davis, Emma Stone9. Straw Dogs (R) James Marsden, Kate Bos-worth10. I Don’t Know How She Does It (PG-13) Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan

TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD as of Oct. 3, 2011

Top 10 Video Rentals1. Thor (PG-13) Chris Hemsworth2. X-Men: First Class (PG-13) James McAvoy3. Hanna (PG-13) Saoirse Ronan4. Everything Must Go (R) Will Ferrell5. Something Borrowed (PG-13) Ginnifer Goodwin6. Paul (R) Simon Pegg7. Rio (PG) animated8. Madea’s Big Happy Family (PG-13) Tyler Perry9. Priest (PG-13) Paul Bettany10. Limitless (PG-13) Bradley Cooper

Top 10 DVD Sales1. Thor (PG-13) (Paramount)2. X-Men: First Class (PG-13) (Fox)3. Barbie: Princess Charm School (NR) (Uni-versal)4. Supernatural: The Complete Sixth Season (NR) (Warner)5. Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (NR) (Anchor Bay)6. Grey’s Anatomy: Complete Seventh Season (G) (Buena Vista)7. Office: Season Seven (NR) (Universal)8. Hanna (PG-13) (Universal)9. Big Bang Theory: The Complete Fourth Sea-son (NR) (Warner)10. Glee: Season 2, Volume 2 (NR) (Fox)

PICKS OF THE WEEK“Bad Teacher” (R) -- Cameron Diaz is Elizabeth, a selfish, hard-partying schoolteacher waiting to land the man who can rescue her from her the job she hates. While the film promises outra-geous and shocking humor, it always seems to go the slow and obvious route. Chock-full of cli-ches and mediocre performances, “Bad Teach-er” scrapes by with a grade of C.The lesson here is if you want an audience to like a movie with an unlikable protagonist, it should at least be funny. Diaz doesn’t have the proven comedy talent of Jason Segel or even Justin Timberlake, who both go underutilized.

“A Better Life” (PG-13) -- This poignant drama follows Carlos (Demian Bichir), an immigrant and a single-father in Los Angeles. Working hard as a landscaper, Carlos’ sole motivation is to give his teenage son, Luis, all the opportu-nities he never had. With artful directing and a career-highlight performance by Bichir, trim-ming trees becomes a glimpse at another life, and buying a pickup truck embodies the first step to a new future.Without any trick moves or Hollywood silliness, the father-son journey plays out with a compas-sionate tone. “A Better Life” humanizes murky issues without bludgeoning the audience with social messages.

“Page One: A Year Inside The New York Times” (R) -- In a turbulent time of new technology and trailblazing trends, one of the most respected newspapers in the world can hear the barbar-ians outside the gates. This documentary takes a multidimensional look at The New York Times, its staff and the myriad winds of change blowing down its venerable doors. It’s not just business, as the film shows that the heart of traditional journalism -- dedicated reporters and editors pouring themselves into the job -- is still beating.

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¥ It was American artist and illustrator Florence Scovel Shinn who made the following observation: The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

¥ In 1811 and again in 1812, earthquakes caused the Mississippi River to temporarily reverse course.

¥ You might be surprised to learn that about a million Americans say they drink Coca-Cola for breakfast.

¥ Dominique Bouhours, a Frenchman who lived in the 17th century, was a priest, an essayist and a grammarian. The love of language may have been closest to his heart, though; itÕs been reported that the final words he uttered on his deathbed were, I am about to -- or I am going to -- die; either expres-sion is used.

¥ The beaver is a rodent.

¥ If youre like the average adult, when youre sitting in a relaxed position, you inhale about one pint of air with every breath.

¥ The United States isnt the only country that has an accolade to recognize excellence in the film industry. Here the awards are known as the Os-cars, but other nations have their own names for the awards: In Canada theyre known as Genies, in France theyre Cesars, in Russia theyre called Ni-kas, in Mexico theyre Golden Ariels, in Spain theyre known as Goyas, and in the United Kingdom theyre called Orange British Academy Film Awards.

¥ Those who study such things say that millions of trees are planted accidentally when absent-minded squirrels forget where they buried their nuts.

¥ In ancient Rome, if you had a hooked nose you were considered to be a born leader.***Thought for the Day: Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still. -- Calvin Coolidge

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FAMOUS FIRSTS (continued):• Frances Perkins was appointed Secretary of La-bor in 1933 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, making her the first woman cabinet member. This also made her the first woman to be placed in the presidential line of succession, in the event of the death of the president. (The Secretary of Labor is 11th down the line, following the vice-president, speaker of the house, and eight others.) Perkins held her position longer than any other labor secretary, 12 years, the entire FDR presidency. • Franklin Roosevelt also made history as the first U.S. president to speak on television, when he gave a short speech at the opening of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City. In addition, in 1943, he be-came the first president to fly in an airplane (al-though Theodore Roosevelt had ridden in a Wright biplane in 1910, he was no longer president). • Johnny Carson stepped up as host of The Tonight Show on October 1, 1962. Actress Joan Crawford was his first guest. When Johnny’s replacement, Jay Leno, took over in 1992, Billy Crystal was the first to join Jay on stage. • Chicago’s Home Insurance Building is regarded as the world’s first skyscraper. Completed in 1885, its original ten stories and height of 138 feet (42 meters) were the first to be supported by a fire-proof metal frame and steel skeleton construction design. It was demolished in 1931 to make way for a taller 45-story bank building, which rose 535 feet (163 meters), a structure that still stands today. • “Live from New York! It’s Saturday Night!” This line has been shouted out on late night television since October 11, 1975. George Carlin was host of the premiere showing with musical guests Janis Ian and Billy Preston.• Although Michael Jordan was the first basketball player to have his picture on the Wheaties box, he was far from being the first athlete on the box. That honor went to baseball great Lou Gehrig in 1934. However, for many years, athletes were featured on the sides or back of the box. Lou wasn’t the first to have his image on the front of the box, but rather on the back. The honor of being first on the front went to pole vaulter Bob Richards in 1958.

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You might use a variety of spices in the kitchen, but several appear to have medicinal qualities as well. This week, Tidbits investigates those spices that do double duty.

• Your mother may have given you ginger ale as a child when your stomach was upset. What you didn’t know back then is that several studies have shown that ginger can be effective for relieving nausea. This includes the nausea of seasickness and the morning sickness of pregnancy. It can also be steamed and will act as a natural aromatic de-congestant for the treatment of a head cold. • It’s more than something you sprinkle on your toast or simmer in your cider. Cinnamon, one of the oldest known spices, has been shown to aid in the treatment of indigestion and upset stomach. Diabetics will be happy to know that several stud-ies have indicated that cinnamon contributes to re-duced blood glucose levels and increased insulin production. Some say it contributes to lowered cho-lesterol and relief of arthritis pain. • For a natural mosquito repellant, try oil of cloves to keep those pests at bay for four to six hours. Naturopaths claim that rubbing a mixture of oil of cloves and mustard into aching joints and muscles will relieve pain and cramps. It’s also said that drink-ing water in which a few cloves have been boiled will help relieve a cough.• Native to the West Indies, nutmeg may spice up a pie, but studies have shown that it helps lower blood pressure as well as ease a stomach ache. Chinese medicine uses it to relieve inflammation and reduce joint swelling. Others maintain that it promotes a restful night’s sleep when steamed and inhaled. However, internal ingestion in high doses, those of around six tablespoons a day, is consid-ered toxic.• If you’re having trouble sleeping, try brewing a cup of Anthemis nobilis, more commonly known as chamomile. It’s known to fight insomnia and act as a muscle relaxant. And just as Peter Rabbit’s moth-er gave him chamomile tea because he wasn’t feel-ing well, many claim that it eases a stomach ache. Some mothers put it in a baby’s bottle to reduce gum inflammation during teething. Others use it in cream form to relieve the pain of bug bites. Howev-er, chamomile is not for those allergic to ragweed, as the two are from the same plant family. • A member of the mint family, rosemary is often used to season fish, soups, and vegetables. How-ever, many say that sniffing the aroma of rose-mary’s essential oil enhances memory, increases concentration, and lifts fatigue. Naturopaths also use the oil to treat congestion and sore throats.• Cayenne pepper may spice up your enchiladas, but research indicates that it also aids in proper digestion and improves blood circulation. It’s also rich in beta-carotene, which seems to boost the im-mune system.

TRIVIA

1. MOVIES: What famous Hollywood couple starred in the 1967 movie Guess Whos Com-ing to Dinner?2. TELEVISION: What was Lurchs job on The Addams Family?3. MUSIC: What is Jo Jos hometown in the Beatles song Get Back? 4. RELIGION: On what date is All Saints Day celebrated in Western Christianity?5. PHYSICS: Who is known as the Father of the Hydrogen Bomb?6. PRIZES: Who won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for history with his biography Abraham Lincoln: The War Years?7. HISTORY: Which French king abdicated during the Revolution of 1848? 8. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: When did the first Yankee Stadium open?9. INVENTIONS Who invented the electric bat-tery? 10. LITERATURE: Where does Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet take place

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1. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn2. Manservant3. Tuscon, Ariz.4. Nov. 15. Edward Teller6. Carl Sandburg7. Louis Philippe8. 19239. Alessandro Volta10. Verona, Italy

SPORTS QUIZ

1. In 2010, Toronto’s Jose Bautista became the seventh player in major-league history to have at least 50 homers, 100 walks and 30 doubles in a season. Name three of the other six to do it.2. When was the last time before 2010 that a player won the N.L. home run season title with fewer than 47 round-trippers? 3. The Rams’ Marshall Faulk (1999) was the second running back in NFL history to have 1,000 rushing yards and 1,000 receiving yards in the same season. Who was the first?4. What school holds the NCAA men’s basket-ball record for most consecutive appearances in the NCAA Tournament?5. Name the first California-born and -raised player to be a first-round NHL draft pick. 6. Which was the first school to post dual (men’s and women’s) three-peat championships in NCAA track and field?7. In 2011, Martin Kaymer became the second German to take the top spot in the world golf rankings. Who was the first?

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1. Barry Bonds, Jimmie Foxx, Luis Gonzalez, Babe Ruth, Sammy Sosa and Hack Wilson. 2. Dante Bichette led the National League with 40 homers in 1995.3. San Francisco’s Roger Craig, in 1985.4. North Carolina, with 27 seasons (1975-2001).5. Jonathon Blum was the 23rd overall pick by Nashville in 2007.6. Texas A&M, 2009-11.7. Bernhard Langer, in 1986,

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1. Which group released “In Memory of Eliza-beth Reed” in 1970?2. In what consecutive years were these El-vis singles released: “Heartbreak Hotel,” “All Shook Up” and “Don’t”?3. Name the group that had a No. 1 pop hit with “Pick Up the Pieces.”4. Which group released “Heartache Tonight” and “In the City”? Bonus for knowing the name of the album both songs appeared on.5. Who had a No. 1 R&B hit with a cover of “Show and Tell” in 1989?6. Which Motown group had a hit with “It’s the Same Old Song,” and when?

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1. The Allman Brothers. The album version was seven minutes, but it was stretched to 13 minutes on the live “At Fillmore East” double album.2. 1956, 1957 and 1958, respectively. All were No. 1 hits on the U.S. pop charts, while “Heart-break Hotel” also made it to the top of the coun-try charts.3. The Scottish group Average White Band, in 1974. The song went to No. 5 on the R&B charts, too.4. The Eagles, in 1979, on their “The Long Run” album.5. Peabo Bryson. He’s won two Grammys, both for movie themes for “Beauty and the Beast” and “A Whole New World.”6. The Four Tops, in 1965. The group has been around since 1953.

• Ray Harroun sped along at an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour during the first Indianap-olis 500 race, held in 1911. It took him just over six hours and 42 minutes to complete the course. (Compare this with the highest average speed to date of about 186 miles per hour and a race time of approximately two hours and 40 minutes.) Janet Guthrie holds a place in history as the first woman to qualify and race in the Indy 500. Guthrie, a for-mer aerospace engineer, made her initial appear-ance in 1977, in which she finished 29th, and went on to compete two more years. In the 1978 race, she finished in ninth place. Visitors to the Smith-sonian Institute can view her helmet and race suit. • The National Woman’s Suffrage Association nominated Victoria Woodhull as their candidate for President of the United States in 1872. Wood-hull, the first woman candidate, ran as a member of the Nation Radical Reformers Party. It wasn’t until 1984 that a woman was on the ticket for vice-president. Geraldine Ferraro was Walter Mon-dale’s chosen running mate that year. Mondale, who had been vice-president under Jimmy Carter, was soundly defeated by Ronald Reagan.• We’ve all heard the famous literary first line, “It was a dark and stormy night.” But how many folks know what work it introduced? It was writ-ten by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton in his 1830 novel Paul Clifford, the story of a man who leads a double life as both a criminal and a gentleman. The opening line is so well-known and often ridi-culed that San Jose State University sponsors an annual contest to celebrate the “worst in writing.” Contestants are asked to complete the worst pos-sible introduction of a novel based on that open-ing sentence. Contest judges prefer writers “with a little talent but no taste.” • Research indicates that there is a streak of per-fectionism in first-born children. Out of the first 23 U.S. presidents, 21 of them were first-born. Other famous eldest children include Walter Cronkite, Oprah Winfrey, Hilary Clinton, and Barack Obama.• Citizens of Atlanta, Georgia were the first to sample a new beverage developed by Dr. John Pemberton, a local pharmacist. After concocting the syrup for the drink, Pemberton carried a jug down to Jacobs’ Pharmacy, where they added car-bonated water and sold it for five cents a glass at the store’s soda fountain. Dr. Pemberton’s partner/bookkeeper came up with the name Coco-Cola and hand-scripted the famous curlicued logo.

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