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THIS WEEK IS: Love May Make The World Go ‘Round, But Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week :“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people“ The week before Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to remind us that there is a strong connection between the heart and “hearty” laughter.

BIRTHDAYS

Roger Mudd -82
Carole King-68
Joe Pesci-67
Mia Farrow-65
Judith Light -61

TODAY IN HISTORY
1895 Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
1900 Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup
1942 Daylight-savings (“War Time”) goes into effect in the U.S., with clocks turned forward one hour.
1953 “The Adventures of Superman” TV series premieres in syndication
1964 1st appearance of Beatles on “Ed Sullivan Show” (73.7 million viewers)
1969 The Boeing 747 makes its inaugural flight.
1985 Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” album goes #1 for 3 weeks
1990 “The Bradys” return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
1997 Fox cartoon series “Simpsons” airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history
2005 A new postage stamp honoring President Reagan is issued.
2006 Mattel announces that Barbie’s one-time boyfriend, Ken, wants to rekindle his romance with his plastic partner.

STRIPPING FOR HAITI
Marilyn’s on Monroe, in Toledo, Ohio, a strip clubaised almost $1,000 for earthquake victims by staging a charity ‘Lap dances for Haiti’ event. The club donated all of its $10 cover charges for one day to the International Services of Hope charity.

LOTS OF SUPERBOWL ADS
If you thought Sunday’s game had an awful lot of commercials, a tally by a research firm would prove you right. Kantar Media says this year’s Super Bowl had nearly 48 minutes of ads. There’s 60 minutes of playing time in a game. That 48 minutes set a new record, 3 more minutes than last year.

SKIING WOMEN
Dozens of skiers in costumes, including Disney villain Cruella de Vil and oversized weather-appropriate underpants, joined in the annual “Alaska Ski for Women.” Organizers of the event, which is in its 14th year, said 1,529 registered skiers, including many in extravagant costumes, raced down the slopes Sunday to raise $800,000 for Abused Women’s Aid in Crisis Inc. and other charities focused on women and children.

LOTS OF SWORDS
Chayne Hultgren, 31, nicknamed the Space Cowboy is a sword swallower and says he set the world record for the most swords down his gullet at 18. The previous record was 17 set in 2008. “It’s amazing,” Hultgren said after setting the record in Sydney. “I’ve been preparing for this since I was 16. It is definitely one of my greatest achievements so far.”

COL. SANDERS MISSING
A Kentucky KFC is offing free chicken for the return of a $1,200 bronze bust of KFC founder Colonel Sanders stolen from in front of the fast-food eatery. “It’s like, this big, his whole head. It’s really detailed, all the features and everything. Some employees were in the dining room when four young guys came in,” Hall said. “When she came back to the dining area, it was gone.”

WRONG PLACE TO HIDE
Police in Wyoming said a shoplifting suspect chose the wrong building for his impromptu hiding place — a nearby police station. Riverton police said Jason Antelope, 26, fled the Riverton Safeway store Wednesday with a bottle of schnapps and a package of cough drops. However, investigators said the nearest building Antelope found to duck into turned out to be the local police station. The suspect tried to turn around and run back outside, but he was recognized by a dispatcher and subsequently tackled by police officers.

LOST CLASS RING FOUND
A Florida graduate who lost his 1989 class ring when it fell from a cruise ship 21 years ago said an Ohio woman called to say she found the ring. Tom Whitney of Orlando, who accidentally dropped the 1989 West Orange High ring from a Port Canaveral-based cruise ship the year of his graduation, said he received an e-mail last Monday from a woman who said she believed the ring had been found. The message said the ring was found by the woman’s metal detector-wielding father along Florida’s Daytona Beach.

NOT SO SMOOTH GETAWAY
A Springfield, MASS. man was arrested and charged with shoplifting after he was caught with 75 bottles of body lotion stuffed down his pants. Sgt John Delaney said Chamil Guadarrama was wearing ordinary trousers but had string tied around each ankle to keep the bottles from falling out. “They could not fit Mr Guadarrama into the cruiser because his pants were bursting at the seams and he could not bend over,” he said. Sgt Delaney said Guadarrama “had a hard time running and was extremely bowlegged”.

USELESS TRIVIA

The USA Today newspaper, launched in 1982, was dubbed the McPaper because it provided its readers with “McNuggets” of news.

In 1891 the U. S. government bought Alaska’s Eskimos sixteen Siberian reindeer; the start of the state’s herd.

342 chests of tea were dumped overboard at the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773.

Famous early American frontiersman Daniel Boone once boasted: “I can’t say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.”