Michael Dammann Eisner is an American businessman and media proprietor who served as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Walt Disney Company from September 1984 to September 2005. Prior to Disney, Eisner was president of rival film studio Paramount Pictures from 1976 to 1984, and had brief stints at the major television networks NBC, CBS, and ABC.

1942Tammy Faye Messner, American evangelist, television personality, and talk show host (died 2007)^[†]

Tamara Faye Messner was an American evangelist. She co-founded the televangelist program The PTL Club with her then-husband Jim Bakker in 1974. They had hosted their own puppet-show series for local programming in the early 1960s; Messner also had a career as a recording artist. In 1978, she and Bakker built Heritage USA, a Christian theme park.

Headlines from March 7, 1942

DEFENDERS RETIRE; Near Exhaustion as They Fall Back on Bandung to Withstand Siege FOE HAS 5-TO-1 ADVANTAGE Holds Batavia, Approaches the South Coast -- Surabaya, Cut Off, Destroys Installations JAVA'S DEFENDERS MAKING LAST STAND

Reich Commissions A New Battleship

U.S. Bombers Leave Java, Balked by Lack of Fighters; DUTCH LOSE AIR AID AS BOMBERS LEAVE

Invasion Near, Bennett Says

THE CHIEF MEETS WITH HIS STREAMLINED STAFF

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