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JSngry Grand Master

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Hey, thanks all!!

So far so good, needed, gentle rain all day, lunch at Fearing's (our new "go to" place for special occasions, not quite as expensive and a LOT less "fancy" than we used to think it would be), orders placed at Amazon, Berkshire, & Dusty Groove, Cowboys/Eagles tonight, series finale of The Newsroom/new episode of The Comeback on HBO GO after that, trio rehearsal tomorrow, and all week off from work. Life is always good, even when it's not always great!

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Time to hop into the wayback machine and travel to the Land of the Past. What happened in December 1955? Check out this comprehensive timeline!

1955 Dec 1, Rosa Parks (42), a seamstress and secretary of the Montgomery NAACP, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, as she sat in a section of a bus just behind the area reserved for whites. She refused to move to the back the bus, to accommodate a white male passenger, as ordered by driver James F. Blake (d.2002 at 89) and defied the South~ez_rsquo~s segregationist laws. This prompted the Dec. 5 bus boycott, a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks, and launched the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Virginia Durr (d.1999 at 95) helped a black civil rights leader bail Parks out of jail. In 1985 Durr wrote her memoir: "Outside the Magic Circle." In 1999 Pres. Clinton authorized a Congressional Gold Medal for Rosa Parks.

1955 Dec 1-1955 Dec 5, AFL delegates in San Francisco approved a merger wit the CIO. The next day CIO delegates voted 660-3 in favor of merging. The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO under its first president, George Meany (1894-1980). [see Feb 9]
(AP, 12/5/97)(HNQ, 6/9/98)(SFC, 12/2/05, p.F2)

1955 Dec 2, Martin Luther King stepped forward with an impromptu speech that marked him as the "acknowledged leader of a major mass protest."
(SFEM, 1/19/97, BR p.1)

1955 Dec 5, The US Montgomery Bus Boycott began in 1955. In Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King organized a bus boycott and began the civil rights movement to end segregation. Black residents chose Mr. King to head The Montgomery Improvement Association, formed to sustain the protest against segregation policies on the municipal buses.
(HFA, ~ez_lsquo~96, p.44)(TMC, 1994, p.1955)(SFEM, 2/2/97, p.8)

1955 Dec 6, NY psychologist Joyce Brothers (28) won the CBS "$64,000 Question," by answering 7 questions on boxing.
(SFC, 12/2/05, p.F2)

1955 Dec 9, Sugar Ray Robinson won the middle-weight boxing crown for the third time when he knocked out Carl "Bobo" Olson in Chicago.
(SFC, 6/29/96, p.E4)(HN, 12/9/98)(SFC, 12/9/05, p.F6)

1955 Dec 10, The anti-proton, discovered in October by a team of UC Berkeley scientists that included Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segre and Clyde Wiegand (1915-1996), was confirmed by scientists at the Univ. of Rome and the Univ. of California.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.A20)(SFC, 12/9/05, p.F6)

1955 Dec 11, Israel launched an attack on Syrian positions along the Sea of Galilee.
(EWH, 1968, p.1241)(HN, 12/11/98)

1955 Dec 12, 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell.
(MC, 12/12/01)

1955 Dec 14, Jsngry born.
(Big O, 3/7/03)

1955 Dec 19, Carl Perkins recorded "Blue Suede Shoes."
(MC, 12/19/01)

1955 Dec 22-1955 Dec 26, A "storm of the century" caused a devastating flood in northern California and left 76 people dead. Damages were estimated at $125 million.
(SFC, 1/4/97, p.A14)(SFC, 1/10/96, p.A21)(SFC, 12/23/05, p.F2)

1955 Dec 24, A levee break on the Shanghai Bend of the Feather River south of Yuba City, Ca., killed 38 people.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.C1)(SFC, 11/17/99, p.E7)

1955 Dec 25, In Iran Navvab Safavi (b.1923), a firebrand cleric, was tried and executed. He was responsible for founding of the Fadayan-e Islam group and with them the assassination of several leading Iranians.
(Econ, 5/4/13, p.52)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvab_Safavi)

1955 Dec 29, Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13.
(MC, 12/29/01)

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JSngry Grand Master

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Time to hop into the wayback machine and travel to the Land of the Past. What happened in December 1955? Check out this comprehensive timeline!

1955 Dec 1, Rosa Parks (42), a seamstress and secretary of the Montgomery NAACP, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, as she sat in a section of a bus just behind the area reserved for whites. She refused to move to the back the bus, to accommodate a white male passenger, as ordered by driver James F. Blake (d.2002 at 89) and defied the South~ez_rsquo~s segregationist laws. This prompted the Dec. 5 bus boycott, a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks, and launched the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Virginia Durr (d.1999 at 95) helped a black civil rights leader bail Parks out of jail. In 1985 Durr wrote her memoir: "Outside the Magic Circle." In 1999 Pres. Clinton authorized a Congressional Gold Medal for Rosa Parks.

1955 Dec 1-1955 Dec 5, AFL delegates in San Francisco approved a merger wit the CIO. The next day CIO delegates voted 660-3 in favor of merging. The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO under its first president, George Meany (1894-1980). [see Feb 9]

(AP, 12/5/97)(HNQ, 6/9/98)(SFC, 12/2/05, p.F2)

1955 Dec 2, Martin Luther King stepped forward with an impromptu speech that marked him as the "acknowledged leader of a major mass protest."

(SFEM, 1/19/97, BR p.1)

1955 Dec 5, The US Montgomery Bus Boycott began in 1955. In Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King organized a bus boycott and began the civil rights movement to end segregation. Black residents chose Mr. King to head The Montgomery Improvement Association, formed to sustain the protest against segregation policies on the municipal buses.

(HFA, ~ez_lsquo~96, p.44)(TMC, 1994, p.1955)(SFEM, 2/2/97, p.8)

1955 Dec 6, NY psychologist Joyce Brothers (28) won the CBS "$64,000 Question," by answering 7 questions on boxing.

(SFC, 12/2/05, p.F2)

1955 Dec 9, Sugar Ray Robinson won the middle-weight boxing crown for the third time when he knocked out Carl "Bobo" Olson in Chicago.

(SFC, 6/29/96, p.E4)(HN, 12/9/98)(SFC, 12/9/05, p.F6)

1955 Dec 10, The anti-proton, discovered in October by a team of UC Berkeley scientists that included Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segre and Clyde Wiegand (1915-1996), was confirmed by scientists at the Univ. of Rome and the Univ. of California.

(SFC, 7/9/96, p.A20)(SFC, 12/9/05, p.F6)

1955 Dec 11, Israel launched an attack on Syrian positions along the Sea of Galilee.

(EWH, 1968, p.1241)(HN, 12/11/98)

1955 Dec 12, 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell.

(MC, 12/12/01)

1955 Dec 14, Jsngry born.

(Big O, 3/7/03)

1955 Dec 19, Carl Perkins recorded "Blue Suede Shoes."

(MC, 12/19/01)

1955 Dec 22-1955 Dec 26, A "storm of the century" caused a devastating flood in northern California and left 76 people dead. Damages were estimated at $125 million.

(SFC, 1/4/97, p.A14)(SFC, 1/10/96, p.A21)(SFC, 12/23/05, p.F2)

1955 Dec 24, A levee break on the Shanghai Bend of the Feather River south of Yuba City, Ca., killed 38 people.

(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.C1)(SFC, 11/17/99, p.E7)

1955 Dec 25, In Iran Navvab Safavi (b.1923), a firebrand cleric, was tried and executed. He was responsible for founding of the Fadayan-e Islam group and with them the assassination of several leading Iranians.

(Econ, 5/4/13, p.52)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvab_Safavi)

1955 Dec 29, Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13.

(MC, 12/29/01)

Wow...started with Rosa Parks, ended with Barbara Streisand...not sure if Dec 14 was on the upward or downward side of that arc...but I think it speaks to being born in that year that to me, my first-and-forever association with "AFL" (as opposed to "AFL-CIO") will always be the George Blanda, not Meany.

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JSngry Grand Master

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Yeah, Blanda started as a QB with the Bears, iirc, then moved to the AFL with the Oilers, led them to the first two AFL Championships and almost a thrid in an epic double OT loss to the Chiefs (who were still the Dallas Texans...this is all by memory so...). Then he moved to the Raiders where he played into his 40s as a really fine kicker.

It's perhaps impossible to understand what the AFL was "about" pre-merger if you weren't there for it. Hell, I was just a kid, so didn't really understand the business implications of it, which were profound and which echo to this day. I just knew that AFL was new, exciting, and colorful, NFL was old guard rigidity. Namath's hair and fur coats vs Johnny U's tops flat and high. If you're 12 in 1967, do the math as to what you're gonna look for and where you're gonna look for it.

If you watched the ABA in the 70s, it was like that, except the NBA never agreed to a "Super Bowl" thing where Namath could shock the old guard like he did, and then Len Dawson again the next year. Can you imagine a time when Hank Stram was a hip rebel contrast to Vince Lombardi? Bump and run, baby! Such a 60s vibe, bump and run - excuse me? No, do not "excuse" me.The AFL was very 60s in that way, old world, we're here to stay, with you or without you, you been bumped, now try and run to get back to where you think you belong. Oh, it was hot, let me tell you...I got bullied a few times for being an Oilers fan instead of a Cowboys fan, and the early rumors that the Cowboys were going to the AFL in the merger were met with, literally, tears by some fans.

Dig it - the NBA absorbed a relatively few ABA teams - the NFL not only absorbed every AFL team, they moved three of their teams to the new AFC. OTOH, instant expansion, but OTOH, rivals not exactly vanquished into oblivion, either...Not sure if anything quite like it has occurred before or since.

George Meany was, to me, at that time, some guy who I saw with LBJ & Nixon a lot. Not the "AFL" I was into then, for sure!

Of course, what do kids know? All the flash can be so alluring...but every bit as enduring, even after the reality takes root. Namath's a sad creepy drunk now and Johnny U is a hero for all time. So let the kids have their head for a minute or two, reality is the great equivocator, and reality will have its time, which is for all time.

Nevertheless, sometimes you just got to bump and run, even today. GOT to!

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