"Die With a Smile" is the latest leader, dating to the Hot 100's 1958 launch. By Xander Zellner Billboard has been publishing weekly rankings in one form or another for more than a century. Early in ...
GATES OF THE MOUNTAINS — One by one, 15 smokejumpers hooked their static lines to an anchor cable and stepped to the doorway of a C-47 on a broiling August Friday in 1949.
“I looked up and the trees actually exploded,” said Dale Graff, 82, of Helena, shown here at the Missoula smokejumper training center in 1960. Courtesy photo ...