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.

August 29, 1966

The Beatles performed at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. It was the group?s last scheduled live appearance before they disbanded in 1970.

"The truest epression of a people is in its dances and its music -- bodies never lie."

- Agnes De Mille (1905 - 1993)