Medal record
Men's athletics
Competitor for the  United States
Summer Olympics
Gold	1948 London	Decathlon
Gold	1952 Helsinki	Decathlon

Bob Mathias
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 18th district
In office January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1975
Preceded by	Harlan Hagen
Succeeded by	William M. Ketchum
Personal details
Born	(1930-11-17)November 17, 1930 Tulare, California
Died	September 2, 2006(2006-09-02) (aged 75) Fresno, California
Political party	Republican

Robert Bruce "Bob" Mathias (November 17, 1930 – September 2, 2006) was an American decathlete, two-time Olympic gold medalist, actor and United States Congressman representing the state of California.

Early life and athletic career[link]

Mathias was born in Tulare, California. He attended Tulare Union High School, where he was classmates and long time friends with Sim Iness, 1952 Olympic discus gold medalist. While at Tulare Union, Mathias took up the decathlon in early 1948, at the suggestion of his track coach, Virgil Jackson. During the summer after his high school graduation, he qualified for the United States Olympic team for the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London.

In the Olympics, Mathias's naïveté about the decathlon was exposed [1]. He was unaware of the rules in the shot put and nearly fouled out of the event. He almost failed in the high jump but was able to recover. Mathias overcame his difficulties and won the Olympic gold medal easily. He was the youngest gold medalist to win a track and field event.

Mathias continued to fare well in decathlons in the four years between the London games and the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. In 1948, Mathias won the James E. Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete, but because his scholastic record in high school did not match his athletic achievement, he spent a year at The Kiski School, a well-respected all boys boarding school in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. He then entered Stanford University in 1949, played college football for two years and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Mathias set his first decathlon world record in 1950 and led Stanford to a Rose Bowl appearance in 1952.

At Helsinki, Mathias asserted himself as one of the world's best athletes. He won the decathlon by 912 points, an astounding margin, becoming the first to successfully defend an Olympic decathlon title. He returned to the United States as a national hero. In 1952, he was, therefore, the first person to ever compete in an Olympics and a Rose Bowl the same year. After the 1952 Olympics, Mathias retired from athletic competition. He later became the first director of the United States Olympic Training Center, a post he held from 1977 to 1983.

He and his wife Melba can be seen on the 29th April 1954 edition of You Bet Your Life. During the discussion he mentions a forthcoming film in which the couple played themselves, called The Bob Mathias Story. He also starred in a number of mostly cameo-type roles in a variety of movies and TV shows throughout the 1950s. In the 1959-1960 television season, Mathias played Frank Dugan, with costars Keenan Wynn as Kodiak and Chet Allen as Slats, in the NBC adventure series The Troubleshooters, which focused twenty-six episodes on events at construction sites.^[1]

Political career[link]

Between 1967 and 1975, Matthias served four terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican, representing the northern San Joaquin Valley of California. He defeated Harlan Hagen, the 14-year Democratic Party incumbent, by about 11 percent in the 1966 election. This was not too surprising, since this area had started to pull away from its New Deal Democratic roots.

Mathias was re-elected three times without serious difficulty, but in 1974, his district's boundaries were radically altered in a mid-decade redistricting. His district was renumbered as the 17th District, and picked up a large chunk of Fresno while losing several rural areas. Mathias was then narrowly defeated for re-election by John Hans Krebs, a member of the Fresno County Board of Supervisors. Mathias was one of several Republicans reputedly swept out in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

From June to August 1975, Mathias served as the Deputy Director of the Selective Service. Mathias was also involved in the unsuccessful 1976 Presidential re-election campaign of President Gerald Ford.

Bob Mathias suffered from cancer, and he died of this disease in Fresno, California on September 2, 2006, aged 75.

Timeline[link]

References[link]

• "The Bob Mathias Story" by Bob Mathias with Robert Mendes;
• "Bob Mathias, Champion of Champions," by Jim Scott;
• "Bob Mathias: The Life of the Olympic Champion," by Myron Tassin;
• "Bob Mathias, Across the Fields of Gold," by Chris Terrence;
• Tulare Historical Museum;
• Wangrin, Mark (1999). "Bob Mathias: Youth Is Served". In ESPN SportsCentury. Michael MacCambridge, Editor. New York: Hyperion-ESPN Books. p. 146.
• Advance-Register archives and staff reports.

External links[link]

Biography portal

• The Official Bob Mathias Website
• Bob Mathias biography at USA Track and Field
• Boy-wonder Mathias elevated decathlon ESPN.com, 2005.
• Mathias dead at 75, Sports Illustrated.com, September 2, 2006
• Bob Mathias at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Former congressman Bob Mathias dies at 75, USA Today retrieved September 5, 2007
• "Bob Mathias". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15589623. Retrieved 2008-02-24. 

Records
Preceded by Glenn Morris	Men's Decathlon World Record Holder June 30, 1950 – June 11, 1955	Succeeded by Rafer Johnson
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Harlan Hagen	United States Representative for the 18th Congressional District of California 1967–1975	Succeeded by William M. Ketchum

Carlo Rustichelli (24 December 1916 - 13 November 2004) was an Italian film composer whose career spanned the 1940s to about 1990. His prolific output included about 250 film compositions, as well as arrangements for other films, and music for television.

Life[link]

Born in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna to a family of music lovers,^[1] he gained a diploma in piano at the Bologna conservatory, going on to Rome where he studied composition at the Santa Cecilia Academy.

He had a wife (Evi), a son (Paolo, also a composer), and a daughter (Alida).

Career[link]

He met Fellini in postwar Rome, and probably through him met Pietro Germi, for whom he composed his first major film score for Gioventù perduta (Lost Youth), and with whom he was most associated.^[1] He composed music for many Germi films in the 1940s, 50s and 60s.

In 1972 he was commissioned by Billy Wilder to compose the music for Avanti!.^[1]

External links[link]

• Carlo Rustichelli at the Internet Movie Database

Notes[link]

References[link]

• "Prolific and versatile father of Italian cinema music: Carlo Rustichelli, Film composer, 1916-2004", The Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend edition, December 4-5, 2004, p. 60

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Rosanna Schiaffino (November 25, 1939 – October 17, 2009) was an Italian film actress. She appeared on the covers of Italian, German, French, British and American magazines.

Early life[link]

She was born in Genoa, into a well-off family. Her mother encouraged her showbusiness ambitions, helping her to study privately at a drama school. She also took part in beauty contests. When she was 14 she won the Miss Liguria beauty contest, moving into modelling jobs, with photographs in important magazines, including Life.^[1]

Film career[link]

She began a promising acting career in the post-neorealist cinema of the 1950s. She was noticed by film producer Franco Cristaldi, who paired her with Marcello Mastroianni in Piece of the Sky in 1959. More important was her second film for him, La sfida (The Challenge), directed by Francesco Rosi, where she made a name for her powerful but sensitive performance as a Neapolitan girl, inspired by the real-life character of Pupetta Maresca. The film was well received at the 1958 Venice festival.^[1]

Schiaffino was launched as the "Italian Hedy Lamarr". However, she would have been more appropriately introduced as the new Italian sex goddess after Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren, but in the early 1960s that role was passing to Claudia Cardinale.^[1]

In 1966 she married producer Alfredo Bini. After many further films, none of them particularly notable, she decided to give up the cinema and divorced Bini in 1976, with whom she had had a daughter.^[1][2]

Jet set[link]

Schiaffino began a new life with the jet set. During the summer of 1980, in Portofino, she met the handsome playboy and steel industry heir Giorgio Enrico Falck, who had also just divorced. Their affair was big news for the gossip tabloids.^[1]

In 1981 she gave birth to their son, Guido, and in 1982 she married Falck. The marriage and its gradual decline after she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991, and the later divorce, led to unpleasant recriminations over the custody of their son and the inheritance, before they came to an agreement prior to Falck’s demise in 2004.^[1]

Death[link]

Rosanna Schiaffino died of cancer after a long, gruelling illness on October 17, 2009, aged 69.

Filmography[link]

• Totò, lascia o raddoppia? (1956)
• Orlando e i Paladini di Francia (1956)
• La sfida (1958)
• Il vendicatore (1959)
• Un ettaro di cielo (1959)
• La notte brava (1959)
• Ferdinando I, re di Napoli (1959)
• Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete (1960)
• Le bal des espions (1960)
• L'onorata società (1961)
• Lafayette (film) (1961)
• Teseo contro il minotauro (1961)
• Le miracle des loups (1961)
• Il ratto delle sabine (1961)
• I briganti italiani (1962)
• Le Crime ne paie pas (1962)
• Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
• Axel Munthe - Der Arzt von San Michele (1962)
• La corruzione (1963)
• Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
• The Victors (1963)^[3]
• The Long Ships (1964)^[4]
• Sette contro la morte (1964)
• Das Geheimnis der drei Dschunken (1965)
• The Mandrake (1965)^[5]
• La strega in amore (1966)
• El Greco (1966)^[6]
• Drop Dead Darling (1966)
• L'avventuriero (1967)
• Encrucijada para una monja (1967)
• Scacco alla regina (1969)
• Simon Bolivar (1969)
• La betìa ovvero in amore per ogni gaudenza ci vuole sofferenza (1971)
• 7 fois... par jour (1971)
• Trastevere (1971)
• Il magnate (1973)
• Un hombre llamado Noon (1973)
• The Heroes (1973)
• Gli eroi (1973)
• Il testimone deve tacere (1974)
• Cagliostro (1974)
• L'assassino ha riservato nove poltrone (1974)
• Ettore lo fusto (1974)
• Commissariato di notturna (1974)
• La trastienda (1975)
• La ragazza dalla pelle di corallo (1976)
• Don Giovanni in Sicilia (1977, TV miniseries)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Rosanna Schiaffino at the Internet Movie Database
• Rosanna Schiaffino at Allmovie

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The California Sports Hall of Fame recognizes athletes, coaches, and members of sports media who have made a "lasting impression to California sports". It was established in 2006 by Christian Okoye, former All-Pro running back for the Kansas City Chiefs. The California Sports Hall of Fame made its first Induction in January 2007.

History[link]

California Sports Hall of Fame has no permanent headquarters yet. After he was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, Christian Okoye approached the late Bill Walsh, Tommy Lasorda and coach John Wooden to help establish a Hall of Fame in California. 19 Sports heroes were then inducted in the inaugural ceremony.

Selection process[link]

Nominations for the Hall of Fame are open to the public. The public send in names and final selection belong the board member and then current members. The Hall of Fame, with assistance from the president and founder, notifies the winning nominees once the voting process has been tabulated. If the winning nominees accept their induction, they must then attend the dinner celebration to be officially inducted into the Hall of Fame. If a nominee rejects or is unable to attend their induction, the Hall of Fame inducts the next highest vote getter. If a nominee declines their induction for 3 consecutive years without reason, the nominee will not be eligible for the 3 years.

Inductees[link]

2007[link]

• Reggie Jackson
• Jackie Robinson
• Elgin Baylor
• Wilt Chamberlain
• Magic Johnson
• Jerry West
• Tom Flores
• Bill Walsh
• Tommy Lasorda
• John Wooden
• Eric Dickerson
• Marcus Allen
• Deacon Jones
• Jim Plunkett
• Chick Hearn
• Raefer Johnson
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee
• Bob Mathias

2008[link]

• Willie Mays
• Dave Winfield
• Cheryl Miller
• Dan Fouts
• Vin Scully
• Donald Quarie
• UCLA Bruins basketball
• De La Salle High School football

2009[link]

• Steve Garvey
• Ann Myers-Drysdale
• Rosey Grier
• Jim Murray
• Mike Powell
• Karch Kirlay

2010[link]

• Bill Walton
• Jim Hill
• Billie Jean King
• Fred Biletnikoff
• Dwight Stones
• Jim Otto
• Merlin Olsen
• Sinjin Smith

External links[link]

• California Sports Hall of Fame

Silvio Amadio (8 August 1926 – 19 August 1995) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 24 films between 1957 and 1981. His film Wolves of the Deep was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1]

Selected filmography[link]

• Wolves of the Deep (1959)
• Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete (1960)
• War Gods of Babylon (1962)
• Assassination in Rome (1965)
• Seven Hours of Gunfire (1965)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Silvio Amadio at the Internet Movie Database

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