Sophia Loren is 88 today

Sophia Loren turned a year older and that is hard to believe.  Her movies with Marcello Mastrionni were absolute classics.  I guess that they'd be PG-13 today.  They had great chemistry on screen!  

Overall, one of the most beautiful women of the 20th century!

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September 20, 1968: Mantle hit # 536, his last HR

Mickey Mantle hit # 536 on this day in 1968 off of Jim Lonborg of Boston and at Fenway Park.   It was # 18 for the season.  Mantle played his last game at Yankee Stadium on September 25th.   The Yankees did not formally say goodbye until 1969 when Mick retired.

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1918, World War I and a young officer named George S Patton

We all know General Patton for his exploits in World War II.   I'm sure that you've seen that great movie "Patton".  As a young soldier, Patton served in World War I under General McArthur.

On this day in 1918, officer Patton wrote a letter to his parents:

“Dear Papa,” Patton began his letter, “we have all been in one fine fight and it was not half so exciting as I had hoped, not as exciting as affairs in Mexico, because there was so much company. When the shelling first started I had some doubts about the advisability of sticking my head over the parapet, but it is just like taking a cold bath, once you get in, it is all right.”

In the rest of the letter, Patton chronicles his experience in battle alongside a brigade commanded by General Douglas MacArthur (later the commander of all Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II) and his movement on foot across the battlefield, evading German shells and surveying the damage inflicted by the battle.

As Patton finally concluded, “This is a very egotistical letter but intersting [sic] as it shows that vanity is stronger than fear and that in war as now waged there is little of the element of fear, it is too well organized and too stupendous.”

Patton came home and served in World War II.   Recently, Bill O'Reilly wrote a book about General Patton.

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We remember Mickey Rooney (1920-2014)

We remember Mickey Rooney who was born in Brooklyn, NY on this day in 1920.  He died at age 93 in 2014.   From an early age, Rooney made a ton of movies.  My favorite is "Boys' Town" with Spencer Tracy and released in 1938.

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