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- Robert Malloy was born on 3 February 1940 in O'Neill, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (1979) and Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival (2013). He was married to Kim Novak and Joan Gundlach. He died on 27 November 2020 in Eagle Point, Oregon, USA.
- Frank Leahy is an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and professional sports executive.
He served as the head football coach at Boston College from 1939 to 1940 and at the University of Notre Dame from 1941 to 1943 and again from 1946 to 1953, compiling a career college football record of 107-13-9. His winning percentage of .864 is the second best in NCAA Division I football history, trailing only that of fellow Notre Dame Fighting Irish coach, Knute Rockne, for whom Leahy played from 1928 to 1930. Leahy played on two Notre Dame teams that won national championships, in 1929 and 1930, and coached four more, in 1943, 1946, 1947, and 1949. Leahy was the athletic director at Notre Dame from 1947 until 1949. Leahy served as the general manager for the Los Angeles Chargers of the American Football League (AFL) during their inaugural season in 1960.
He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1970. - Actor
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One of the foremost exponents of Hawaiian music, Harry Owens arrived in the islands in 1934 and became quickly enamored with the local scene. Owens had been a straight trumpet player in Los Angeles dance bands (at the Ambassador Hotel Cocoanut Grove and for Vincent Rose). His previous experience as a leader dated back to 1926, when he fronted a band at the Lafayette Cafe in L.A.. His song "Aloha Oe" was heard by the manager of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, who asked Owens to establish a house orchestra at his resort. Owens obliged, and, abandoning western-style music, totally embraced Hawaiian culture -- music in particular -- transcribing many traditional songs for the first time. He was also instrumental in popularising the steel guitar. Owens took his 'Royal Hawaiians', with regular vocalists Hilo Hattie and Alfred Apaka, on several successful tours of the U.S. West Coast. This included a return to his old haunt at the Cocoanut Grove and engagements at the Mural Room of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Owens made prolific recordings for Decca, Capitol and Columbia and enjoyed being regularly showcased on the radio show 'Hawaii Calls' (from 1935, complete with ocean sounds emanating from Waikiki Beach for added authenticity) and had his own show on CBS television from 1949 to 1958.
His most famous composition and signature song was "Sweet Leilani" (inspired by the birth of his daughter), crooned by Bing Crosby, which won the Oscar for Best Song, after being featured in the film Waikiki Wedding (1937). It remained top of the charts for twenty-eight weeks and has sold more than twenty million copies to date. Among more than 300 songs written or transcribed by Owens are such popular compositions as "Voice of the Trade Winds", "Blue Shadows and White Gardenias", "Linger Awhile", "Hawaii Calls" and "Polynesian Holiday". Owens was also credited with helping to reinvigorate the tourist industry in Hawaii. In 1987, he was honoured with the Na Hoku Hanohano Lifetime Achievement Award, bestowed by the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts (HARA), a year after his death at the age of eighty-four.- Francis Whelan was born on 11 December 1907 in O'Neill, Nebraska, USA. He died on 22 August 1991 in Palm Desert, California, USA.
- Bob Cain was born on 11 August 1934 in O'Neill, Nebraska, USA. He died on 2 September 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.