Dimitri Tiomkin wrote High Noon's prize-winning musical score. Asked in an interview how a Russian-born concert pianist could write Western music, Tiomkin had a quick reply. "Did Strauss," he inquired hotly, "have to be an Olympic swimmer to write The Blue Danube?"

Aristotle Onassis kept a copy of J. Paul Getty's How to Be Rich on his desk in his multimillion-dollar yacht Christina.

May 14, 1878

The trademarked name "Vaseline" -- for a brand of petroleum jelly -- was registered this day by Robert A. Chesebrough.

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