1945

GUIDEPOSTS was founded in 1945 by the renowned Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and his wife, Ruth Stafford Peale.
http://www.pulitzer.org/cyear/1945w.html:
Novel- A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf)
Drama- Harvey by Mary Chase
History- Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal (Doubleday)
Biography or Autobiography- George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russell Blaine Nye (Knopf)
Poetry- V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro (Reynal)
Music- Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland, a ballet written for and presented by Martha Graham and group, commissioned by Mrs. E. S. Coolidge, first presented at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. October, 1944.

Motion pictures:
Federico Fellini (1920-93), film director, got his first important break in film, when he was invited to collaborate on the script of Roma, citta aperta/Open City (1945), Roberto Rossellini's seminal work of the neo-realist movement. Roberto won the Grand Prize at Cannes for this Italian film.

January-

3: Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877-January 3, 1945) died.
8: Stephen William Hawking (1942-)'s 3rd birthday in Oxford, England.
9: Elvis Presley (1935-77) 's 10th birthday.
14: Grandpa William Nieman (1886-1958)'s 58th birthday.
17: Sean O'Casey turned down an offer of up to $100,000 to write the scenario for a Hollywood film of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel.
23: If we know that the best thing in us, the soul, is immortal, then we also know that we shall meet each other again.

1: James Nieman (1912-)'s 33rd birthday.
4-11: The Yalta Conference began. FDR, Churchill, and Stalin, the Big Three (photo above).
4: Rastafarian Bob Marley (1945-) was born. He popularized reggae music.
9: Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow/Mia Farrow (born to John Farrow & Maureen O'Sullivan, on February 9, 1945 [Joe Pesci's 2nd birthday], in Los Angeles, California, USA-) won a Golden Globe award and was nominated for 8 more. She was in Widow's Peak; Rosemary's Baby; and many films directed by her 3rd husband, Woody Allen, including Alice; Husbands and Wives; & Hannah and her Sisters
Actor Joe Pesci (2-27-1943)'s 2nd birthday.
11: Yalta Confeence ended.
14: Ash Wednesday on Saint Valentine's Day.
15: Gate of Heaven/La Porta del cielo Italianmovie directed by Vittorio De Sica, opened today (screenplay written by Vittorio De Sica and Diego Fabbri)
23: U.S. marines, including Ira Hayes, American Indian of Arizona, raised the stars and stripes on a mountain at Iwo Jima. A Famous Photo was taken to commemorate this event.
24: Barry Knapp Bostwick (born February 24, 1945, at San Mateo, California, USA, to Betty and Bud Bostwick) the actor who was in The Rocky Horror Picture Show; 2 Parent Trap movies. He portrayed George Washington in 2 TV miniseries, and won a Golden Globe best supporting actor award for War and Remembrance. He was married to Stacey Nelkin from 1987-1991, then divorced. He married Sherri Jensen on November 27, 1994 and has 2 children, Brian (May, 1995) and Chelsea (October, 1996). In July 1997, he underwent successful surgery for prostate cancer.
26: Edwin Joseph "E.J." Haidusek (1944-)'s 1st birthday in Weimar, Texas; parents- Frances (Heger) and Edwin Henry Haidusek.
27: 5:30PM, East Saint Louis, Illinois: Robert James "Bobby" Gray III (1945-), an artist/substitute teacher in Prescott, Arizona, was born to Ceil and Bob at Saint Mary's Hospital in East Saint Louis, Illinois.
: Carl Anderson (born February 27, 1945, at Lynchburg, Virginia, USA-died February 23, 2004, in Los Angeles, California, USA, of leukemia) was nominated for 2 Golden Globe awards, for Best Actor and Most Promising Newcomer for his role as Judas Iscariot in the film of Rice-Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar (1974); was in The Black Pearl; and played Reverend Samuel in The Color Purple
Daniel Olbrychski (1945-) was born in Poland. He was an actor in Andrei Wajda's La Truite.
Feast day of Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows/Possenti, CP (1838-62).
Elizabeth Taylor (1932-)'s 13th birthday. She had just finished making two films, The White Cliffs of Dover and National Velvet. Although born in London and a citizen of the British Empire, her parents were art dealers from Saint Louis, Missouri. Her mother quit acting when she was married to Elizabeth's father.
Joanne Woodward (1930-)'s 15th birthday. She went to Hollywood High School with Sharon (Steele-Hunter) Graham
On this day in 280 AD, Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (306-37), adopted Christianity.

March

7: John Heard (born March 7, 1945, at Washington, District of Columbia, USA-) actor who was in Jack and Bobby TV series on the Kennedys; played a reverend in the 7th Sign. He was also in Edison; Pollock; Mindwalk; Beaches; & 2 Home Alone movies.
11: Yalta conference ended. "Big 3" leaders of allied forces. FDR, Churchill and Stalin met to discuss strategies for victory in The Pacific.
13: Chinese New Year, beginning the Year of the Rooster 02/13/1945 to 02/01/1946 (Wood).
Timothy Dalton's 1st birthday in Wales.
11: Robert James Gray III (1945-) "Bobby" was baptized at Saint Elizabeth's church, 25th and Ridge, East Saint Louis, IL. by Rev. Peter Engel. Godparents were his Aunt Darlene Gray and Richard "Buddy" Butler. Grandpa Robert Joseph Gray (1896-1963)'s 49th birthday.
21:Timothy Dalton's 1st birthday in Wales.
25: Blessed Caterina Volpicelli (1839-94) was declared Venerable by Pope Pius XII.
Our Lady of All Nations/the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in a series of apparitions from March 25, 1945 through May 31, 1959, and a series of ecstatic Eucharistic experiences between July 1958 and May 1970. The seer, Ida Peerdemen was an office worker with an industrial firm in Amsterdam, Holland.

April-

9: Lutheran minister, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (-1945), of the German Resistance, was hanged by the Nazis for treason. See the film Bonhoeffer, Agent of Grace, directed by Eric Till.
10: Hitler's birthday.
Frank Clark (born December 22, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA-died on April 10, 1945, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA) was a priest in My Wild Irish Rose (1922)
12: President FDR (-1945) died, Vice President Harry S. Truman became president.
22: Billy Nieman (1939-)'s 6th birthday.
26: Brother Wendelin Loeb, C.P. (1872-1945) Holy Cross Province, died.
28: Mussolini and his mistress Petucci were shot and hung upside down in the city square.
29: Hitler married Eva Braun in his bunker.
30: Adolph Hitler (1899-1945) committed suicide. His cousin, Eva Braun, committed suicide with him also in his bunker. They also killed his dog. He was buried privately by his loyalists. His age was 46 years, 10 days.

May-

7: (2:41 am) Germans signed surrender terms at Rheims.
8: The surrender pact was ratified. Truman declares May 8 as V-E Day, Victory in Europe.
During Hitler's regime, The Nazis had sought control of all work with youth. Blessed Karl Leisner (1915-45) who studied theology in Munster, and tried to establish Catholic youth groups, had to take teenagers "camping" in Belgium and the Nederlands in order to freely discuss Catholicism. He spent six months in compulsory agricultural work during which, despite Nazi opposition, he organized Sunday Mass for his fellow workers. His home was raided by the Gestapo, who seized his diaries and papers. These meticulously preserved documents tell how the spiritual young man became a heroic religious leader.
Ordained a deacon by Bishop von Galen in 1939, he was nevertheless imprisoned in Freiburg, Mannheim and Sachsenhausen for criticizing Hitler. Transferred on December 14, 1941 to Dachau, he was secretly ordained there on December 17, 1944 by French bishop Gabriel Piquet, who had been admitted to the camp with the help of local religious authorities. Leisner was so sick he had to postpone his first Mass for over a week.
Still in the camp when it was liberated on 4 May 1945, he was immediately transferred to the tuberculosis sanitarium of Planegg, near Munich, for the remaining months of his life. See August 12.
14: A Life magazine article was written on the Broadway play, Carousel.
20: Pat Dennehy (1917-)'s 28th birthday. He was dating Dolores Gray.
31: Rainer Werner Fassbinder/Franz Fassbinder/Franz Walsch (1945-82) was born as Bad Wörishofen (1945-82) in Bavaria, Germany. He was a film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, and playwright who died on June 10, 1982, in Munich, Germany.
Memorial Day!

June-

5: Lionel Gray (1935-2003)'s 10th birthday.
15: Chris Nieman (1940-)'s 5th birthday.
16: Sadie Gray (1896-)'s 49th birthday.
19: Fred Nieman (1909-)'s 36th birthday.
23: Glen Claussen (1915-)'s 30th birthday.
24: Myrtle Nieman (1916-)'s 29th birthday.

July-

12: Gerald "Jerry" Niemann was born on July 12, 1945.
16: "Trinity" bomb exploded at Los Alamos, NM.
Oppenheimer quotes the Book of the Dead: "I am become death, destroyer of worlds."
17: Cecilia Dolores Gray (1942-), 3rd Birthday.
26: Fred and Vera Nieman's 7th wedding anniversary (1938).
27: Marian & Glen Claussen's 11th wedding anniversary (1934).

August-

Bob Gray Sr. in the U.S. at California.
6: Paul Tibbets, flying a U.S. airplane which he named for his mother, Enola Gay, and his crew, dropped Little Boy, the first atomic bomb used in warfare, on Hiroshima, Japan.
Flyers were dropped to warn people to leave.
8: Russia declared war on Japan and attacked Manchuria.
9: Fat Man, a second atomic bomb, was dropped on Nagasaki, which is considered to be a holy city in Japan. Major Charles W. Sweeney piloted the B-29, #77 that dropped Fat Man. After the nuclear mission, #77 was christened Bockscar after its regular Command Pilot, Fred Bock.
Sam Eliot (born August 9, 1944 in Sacramento, CA-)'s 1st nirthday. The actor was in Houston: the Legend of Texas; Gettysburg; Rough Riders and Off the Map

Japan Surrenders!!
Sam Eliot's 1st birthday
12: Mary Ann Claussen (1936-)'s 9th birthday.
Blessed Karl Leisner (1915-45) born February 28, 1915 at Rees, Germany, died of tuberculosis as a result of his incarceration by the Nazis.
20: Vera Nieman (1911-)'s 34th birthday.
25: Dolores Gray (1919-)'s 26th birthday.
27: Bob Gray returned to East Saint Louis from California, discharged from the Navy.
death of Blessed Maria del Pilar Izquierdo Albero (1906-45), who founded the Missionary Work of Jesus and Mary, died. She was born on July 27, 1906 in Spain.
30: Ceil and Bob Gray, 4th Wedding Anniversary (1941). 31: Van Morrison, singer of the pop hit, Glotia with The Animals and a solo singer-songwriter of Natalia; Lost Dreams and Found Dreams in America (born at Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK-)

September-

4: Sarah Nieman (1889-1955)'s 56th birthday.
11: Ceil Gray (1920-1991), 25th birthday.
14: Darlene Gray (1930-)'s 15th birthday.
18: Melvin Gray (1924-2003) 's 21st birthday.
29: Marian Claussen (1914-)'s 31st birthday.
23: James and Myrtle Nieman's 11th wedding anniversary (1934).


October-

Sean O'Casey (1884-)'s play, Purple Dust, opened in Liverpool at the playhouse, performed by the Liverpool Old9: Vic company. He also published Drums Under The Windows, the third volume of his Autobiography.
21: Flavian Mankin OFM Cap (November 11, 1914-1945), a Capuchin priest and one of the Martyred Bishops and Priests of the Roman Catholic Rite in Bulgaria, died at Sekirovo.
31: All Hallow�s Eve.

November-

1: All Saints Day.
The trials of Nazi War Criminals began in Nuremberg, Germany. The judge was ...Johnson.

December-

Mel Torme: The Christmas Song;
4: Bob Gray (1917-), 28th birthday.
25: Bobby Gray's first Christmas Day. Bishop Hryhoriy Khomyshyn (1967-1945), bishop of Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk, one of the Martyred Bishops and Priests of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Rite and Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, who was born on March 25, 1867 at Gadinkivzy, died in Kiev, Ukraine.
A shepherd boy found some ancient scrolls at Nag Hamadi. His family was poor, and they used some of them for firewood. Soon, someone realized they might be valuable.

Index of photos from the collection of Ceil (Nieman) Gray:

Cecilia puts her doll to nitey nite-
G(randpa) Nieman made bed, halltree, costumer and high chair for her for (Christ) Xmas. These are the things my dad made for her. Not how long her hair is, course, it isn't in long curls.

Cecilia with present for Bonnie Dixon's birthday party- in white fur.

Bobbie, Cec w Grandma and Grandpa Nieman (3 copies).

Bobbie, Cec w Grandma and Grandpa Gray.

Mom and C in matching red-dotted-Swiss dresses mom made.

Taken at Fred's house. (2 copies)

Cecilia, Bobby & mom, Studio photographer took photo, colored them with oil: Aqua suits with monograms.

At Grandma N's- Cec and Bobby at 10 months in stroller.

Cecilia with long hair behind Grandma's house.
480 North 25th Street
East Saint Louis, Illinois

Hollywood musicals/swept away by the whirlwind of love.... 1950's
ARTIST: Glenn Miller
TITLE: Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree
Sung by the Andrews Sisters
Lyrics and Chords
Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
Anyone else but me, anyone else but me, no, no, no
Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
'Til I come marchin' home

/ G - GC G / D - GC GD / G - GC G / D - G - /

Don't go walkin' down Lovers' Lane with anyone else but me
Anyone else but me, anyone else but me, no, no, no
Don't go walkin' down Lovers' Lane with anyone else but me
'Til I come marchin' home

I just got word from a guy who heard
From the guy next door to me
The girl he met just loves to pet
And it fits you to a T
So, don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
'Til I come marchin' home

/ C - / GD G / Em - / D - / G - GC G / D - G - /

Don't give out with those lips of yours to anyone else but me
Anyone else but me, anyone else but me, no, no, no
Watch those girls on foreign shores, you'll have to report to me
When you come marchin' home

Don't hold anyone on your knee, you better be true to me
You better be true to me, you better be true to me
Don't hold anyone on your knee, you're gettin' the third degree
When you come marchin' home

You're on your own where there is no phone
And I can't keep tabs on you
Be fair to me, I'll guarantee
This is one thing that I'll do
I won't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but you
'Til you come marchin' home

Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
I know the apple tree is reserved for you and me
And I'll be true 'til you come marchin' home
Lyric for don't sit under the apple tree by andrews sisters From the album big punisher verse: I wrote my mother, I wrote my father, And now I'm writing you too. I'm sure of mother, I'm sure of father, And now I want to be sure of you. chorus: Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me, Anyone else but me, anyone else but me, NO NO NO! Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me Till I come marching home. Don't go walking down lovers' lane with anyone else but me, Anyone else but me, anyone else but me, Don't go walking down lovers' lane with anyone else but me Till I come marching home. I just got word from a guy who heard From the guy next door to me, That a girl he met just loves to pet, And it fits you to a "T". So don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me Till I come marching home. (Last time, last two lines) Then we'll go arm in arm, and Sit down under the apple tree, Baby, just you and me, When I come marching home. PARODY, GIRL'S REPLY (sung by Marion Hutton with Glenn Miller Orch.) Don't give out with those lips of yours To anyone else but me, Anyone else but me, anyone else but me, No No NO! Lots of girls on the foreign shores, You'll have to report to me When you come marching home. Don't hold anyone on your knee, You better be true to me, You better be true to me, you better be true to me. Don't hold anyone on your knee, You're getting the third degree When you come marching home. You're on your own where there is no phone, And I can't keep tab on you. Be fair to me, I'll guarantee This is one thing that I'll do: I won't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but you Till you come marching home. I know the apple tree is reserved for you and me, And I'll be true till you come marching home. SONG words & music: Lew Brown/Sam H. Stept/Charlie Tobias copyright: Unknown sources: Capitol CD D101771 from Universal Pictures "Private Buckaroo" PARODY words: Unknown