Radio ... and Me - 21

Back in the 1950s, radio appeared to be in peril, from the onslaught of television.

But radio fought back, with a fiendishly clever campaign, produced by the American satirist, Stan Freberg, entitled: “Nobody Listens to Radio.” Each radio spot message ended with the tagline (sung by the great Ella Fitzgerald, no less!), “Only one hundred and fifty million people … that's all!” (Photo by: www.textually.org/)
Radio may be in another kind of “peril” today, with the rise of radio on the Internet and the widespread use of iTunes.
However, all is not lost.

Glenn's Space Shot -- Plus Fifty

My first reaction, a couple of days ago, was almost disbelief: It has been 50 YEARS (!) since John Glenn carried out his historic five-hour flight, making three orbits of the Earth.

By early 1962, the American space program had fallen way behind that of the Soviet Union, who had launched the first man-made satellite, “Sputnik,” in October, 1957. (I can still hear the beeps that were transmitted at the time.) The USSR followed it with a series of satellites, some of which carried animals into space, and, of course, their most important feat: the orbital flight of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, in April, 1961.