Wednesday, March 9, 2011

If they were alive today....


...these folks would be celebrating their birthday.  It's a "stag party" today:

9cccfc06.jpg Carl Betz
Actor Carl Betz would be 90.  "The Perfect Husband" to "The Perfect Wife," Donna Reed, Betz played Dr. Alex Stone on The Donna Reed Show from 1958 to 1966. 




Prolific Brooklyn crime novelist Mickey Spillane would be 93.  His books, mostly his "Mike Hammer" series, are among the most-read American novels of the 20th Century.


One of the most notable American operatic composers of the 20th century, Samuel Barber would be 101.  His most famous and frequently performed work was the opera, Vanessa.

Thomas Schippers was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan 81 years ago today.  The movie-star-handsome Schippers achieved world fame as both an operatic and orchestral conductor, mostly at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.  A heavy smoker, he died at the age of 47 from lung cancer.

This lovely work, Knoxville:  Summer of 1915 was written by Samuel Barber and conducted by Thomas Schippers:



Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence 557 years ago today.  I've never heard an adequate explanation of exactly why the Americas are named after him.  And why is it that we don't live in "The United States of Vespucci"...or at the very least, "The United States of Amerigo"?  Well, in any case, thanks, Amerigo, for finding us....if, in fact, you did (there is controversy surrounding his actual "discoveries").  But let's not quibble.  This is a birthday party, after all....

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