The World's Largest Gummy Bear is the lion of the candy world. There is no candy more magnificent or more powerful. This five-pound beast is the equivalent of 1,400 regular sized gummy bears and packs a whopping 6,120 calories.
Modeled after Life but intended for an emerging black middle class, the magazine is an instant success. This same year, Nat King Cole becomes the first black with his own network radio show. Cole is also the first black with his own network TV show, The Nat King Cole Show (1956). Jackie Robinson plays baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the first black in the major leagues in the modern era. In 1962 he was the first black inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
As Cottam, now assisted by Harold Sydney Bride, the surviving radio operator from Titanic, began to transmit the names of the survivors, David Sarnoff, a 21 year-old radio operator from Philadelphia was one of the people with a receiver powerful enough to pick up the signals broadcast by Carpathia.Sarnoff would eventually go on to create the first ever national radio network-NBC!). By April 18th, 1912, three days after the sinking, Carpathia was approaching the familiar landmarks of the Statue of Liberty, and the skyscrapers of New York.