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• David Starsky and Kenneth Hutchinson were fictional Bay City, California, cops who raced through the streets in Starsky’s red Gran Torino for 92 episodes on ABC television. Actors Michael Glaser and David Soul portrayed the police pair under the radio call sign “Zebra three” from April of 1975 until May of 1979.

• In 1939, Batman was introduced in “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate” in Detective Comics as a crime-fighter who masqueraded as playboy Bruce Wayne. The faithful sidekick Robin (aka Dick Grayson) joined the Caped Crusader in 1940, and together, the Dynamic Duo waged war against Gotham city crime. The pair moved to television in 1966 for 120 episodes of a liveaction series. On the big screen, Batman has been portrayed by box office stars Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney and Christian Bale.

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They were box office stars by 1941 and began their own TV series in 1952. However, fame didn’t come without its difficulties. Both comics were habitual gamblers, and Abbott managed the pain from his epilepsy with alcohol. Costello battled regular bouts with rheumatic fever, which forced him to take a year off from work.

On the day he returned to work, his infant son drowned in the family swimming pool. Both men were charged for back taxes by the IRS in 1956, and both were forced to sell their homes and film rights to cover the debt.

• Bonnie Parker was just 19 years old and already married to an imprisoned murderer when she met 21-year-old Clyde Barrow in Texas. During the Great Depression, the outlaw couple reportedly was responsible for at least 12 bank robberies, countless smaller burglaries and 13 murders, including those of nine police officers. On the day their lives of crime came to an end in 1934, Bonnie and Clyde were driving a gray V-8 Ford, which was ambushed by the law in Louisiana.

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Large-scale distribution of alcoholic beverages and organized crime flourished anyway. ● On Jan. 17, 1950, 11 men steal more than $2 million from the Brinks Armored Car depot in Boston. It was almost the perfect crime, as the culprits weren’t caught until January 1956, just days before the statute of limitations for the theft expired. Only a small part of the money was ever recovered; the rest is fabled to be hidden in the hills north of Grand Rapids, Minn. ● On Jan. 14, 1969, an explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, the first-ever nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, kills 27 people in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A rocket accidentally detonated, destroying 15 planes and injuring more than 300 people.

FAMOUS DUOS (continued): • Meriwether Lewis was 29 years old and cocommander William Clark was 33 when they were commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 to explore the Louisiana Purchase all the way to the Pacific coast. Lewis and Clark were both Virginia-born veterans of Ohio Valley Indian wars. Their expedition included more than 40 other men and their Shoshone guide Sacagawea as they wound their way up the Missouri River. Over a period of two years and four months, the group traveled over 8,000 miles, using a 55-foot-long keelboat and two smaller boats, all the while making maps and studying the rocks, soil, plants and wildlife they encountered. After the expedition, Jefferson appointed Lewis Governor of the Louisiana Territory. At age 35, on a journey to deliver his journals to a Washington, D.C., publisher, Lewis died from multiple gunshot wounds, generally accepted as a suicide, although some believe he was the victim of an assassin. Clark served as Governor of the Missouri Territory and finally as Superintendent of Indian Affairs.

• Barbie and Ken were the creations of Ruth Handler, wife of the Mattel toy company cofounder. Ruth named the couple after her own children, introducing Barbie in 1959 and Ken in 1961. Barbie (full name Barbie Roberts) has had more than 125 careers, including architect, astronaut, doctor and racecar driver. Ken Carson, who has had at least 40 occupations, first appeared with a molded plastic haircut with felt hair. In 2004, Mattel announced a breakup of our favorite couple, implying Ken’s reluctance to get married, but rekindled the romance in 2006 in conjunction with a makeover for Ken. Barbara Handler Segal is now a 70-year-old Los Angeles mother of two. Her brother Ken passed away at age 50 in 1994 of a brain tumor.

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FAMOUS DUOS (continued): • Most baby boomers will recall learning from the popular “Dick and Jane” readers during their primary school years — about 60 million children in all used the books. The brother and sister pair first appeared in 1930, and by the 1950s, about 80 percent of first-graders were reading the series. Written by William Gray and Zerna Sharp, the books also featured sister Sally, Spot the dog and Puff the cat. If you happen to have a first edition of one of the books, it’s worth as much as $200.

• Daryl Hall and John Oates met in 1967 while attending Philadelphia’s Temple University. It wasn’t until seven years later that they achieved their first hit “She’s Gone.” Their first of six Billboard No. 1 songs came along in 1977, “Rich Girl,” followed up with “Kiss on My List.” The pair has racked up 34 singles on the Hot 100 charts and seven platinum albums, with sales of more than 60 million records.

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• Mickey and Minnie Mouse became an item in 1929 in the cartoon “Plane Crazy,” just four months after Mickey’s debut in “Steamboat Willie.” They went on to appear in 73 cartoons together. Their friend Donald Duck was single from the time of his 1934 premiere in “The Wise Little Hen” until Daisy Duck’s appearance in 1940’s “Mr. Duck Steps Out.” The sailor-suited Donald is the uncle of triplets Huey, Dewey and Louie, while Daisy is the aunt of their counterparts April, May and June Duck.

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• The Chrysler Building now ranks as the third tallest building in New York City and the 48th tallest in the world. It still holds the honor of the world’s tallest brick building. It has been a National Historic Landmark since 1976. problems without miracles. This time, instead of a fireman with a failing marriage, four cops need help being better fathers.

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• The building was officially completed on May 27, 1930, at a cost of $20 million. Soaring to a height of 1,047 feet, it was the world’s tallest building at its completion, as well as the first man-made structure to exceed a height of 1,000 feet. It surpassed the Eiffel Tower, which had been the world’s tallest structure for 40 years, by 48 feet (14.6 m). Just 11 months after the Chrysler Building’s completion, it was outdone by the Empire State Building by more than 200 feet.

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Because Chrysler wanted his children to inherit the building, the Chrysler Corporation paid for none of the construction, with the entire bill footed by Walter Chrysler himself.

• The walls of the elegant lobby are red Moroccan marble, while the floors are yellow marble. The elevator doors are inlaid with Japanese ash and American walnut, and the lobby is decorated with various Egyptian motifs. A 110-foot ceiling mural features a likeness of the building with planes flying around it, as well as painted scenes from the Chrysler plant assembly line.

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• Chinese: The generic term “chinese” now represents types of food that are very different from the meals that are (or ever were) served in China. That said, the same argument could be made about what we consider “American” food. Hamburgers? Ice cream?

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