Bud, Not Buddy. It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: He has his own suitcase full of special things. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.
At 5:45 PM on this day in 1955, 24-year-old actor James Dean is killed in Cholame, California, when the Porsche he is driving hits a Ford Tudor sedan at an intersection.
Bill Haas was injured in a fatal car crash Tuesday evening near Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. The 35-year-old pro was the passenger in a Ferrari that reportedly crashed into an oncoming vehicle, rolling the Ferrari over. The driver of the Ferrari, Mark Gibello, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash while Haas and the driver of the other vehicle, a 50-year-old female, were taken to a local hospital.