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.

July 24, 1956

After a decade together as the country?s most popular comedy team, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis called it quits. They did their last show at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City.

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)