European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Kay Bartlett associated press rmv1ous everybody knows that Jackie Robinson waste first Black big league baseball player mos everyone knows Sandra Day o Connor was the first woman to sit on the . Supreme court but what does the name Steve Newman do for you Well he was the first Man to walk All alone around the world. And there Are Many other individuals who did something first people who had their Warhol an 15 minutes of Fame sometimes of a dubious nature sometimes revolutionary sometimes profoundly forgettable. Newman of Bethel Ohio took four years for his global stroll and he got More than 15 minutes of Fame out of it. Andy Warhol was wrong says Newman who completed his trek in 1987. If i wanted to be Boring i could live on this for the rest of my life. It is not a 15-minute  he says he got a $100,000 Advance for a Book. He also gets requests for three or four speeches a week at $1,000 a throw which he says is like being paid for being Marco  less of a Saga is the achievement of Fred Muermann of Chetek wis., who very quietly grew a Cornstalk 22 feet and 3 inches High said by the guinness Book of world records to be the tallest Ever. And a wee one named Gordon entirely oblivious to the Honor was the first baby to be born on television according to famous first facts a reference work containing Many such nuggets. Gordon arrived by caesarean Section at Colorado general Hospital in Denver on dec. 2,1952, greeted by keel to. The program aired on 49 Abc affiliates As the High Point of an american medical association clinical meeting. The first marriage of two . Representatives took place on Jan. 2,1976, in Topeka Kan. Andrew Jacobs jr., of Indiana married Martha Keyes of Kansas. They Are now divorced and neither is still in Congress. The first nun to become a mayor of an american City was sister Carolyn Farrell a sister of Charity bpm. She was elected to the City Council in Dubuque Iowa in 1977, and became mayor in 1980. She did t mind the to do but the roman Catholic Church minded clerics seeking Public office and she did t run for re election. Carolyn As most people Call her says the name recognition she achieved helped her pursue her goals for social change. Basically i m still an activist and a feminist says the 52-year-old nun who has been in the Convent for 33 years. This september she is going to the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public policy at the University of Minnesota for seminars on reflective leadership leadership in spirituality and ethics and women in leadership. High tech Bio genetic and space firsts Cluster thickly in the past two or three decades but lower tech triumphs Haven t lost their allure. The pilots of the voyager Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan made history in 1986 when they flew around the world in the first non Stop flight without refuelling dec. 14 23. The Rigours of the preparation unfurled a Romance Between the pilots. They parted As friends. Kanellos Kanellopoulos very nearly re created the myth of Daedalus when the real life greek a cycling Champ flew farther than anyone else in a human powered plane last april 23. By peddling the 72-Pound aircraft on a 74-mile flight from Crete to Santorini and crashing into the sea just 10 Yards offshore Kanellopoulos broke earlier records of 37.2 Miles and 22.5 Miles. Newman s Ultra Low tech feat doggedly putting one foot in front of the other Drew some appropriately primitive adventures. He was attacked in Morocco he says by a Man with a scar running Down the Side of his face and one eyeball missing. I had t seen the movie but i did a Crocodile Dundee. I pulled out a bigger knife and he ran says Newman. Bandits also set upon him with machetes in Thailand he in 1977, Eva Shain of fort Lee ., became the first woman to judge a heavyweight championship. Says and he fended them off with an umbrella. In Africa 13 wild boars treed him for a night. Now engaged to be married to the girl almost next door the 6-foot-2 Newman says he intends to keep using his feet As a Means of meeting Ordinary people and writing about them. Eventually i wanted to become a novelist but i want to do More walking stories he says. The trek incidentally boiled Down to 19 cents a mile compared he notes to a spacecraft s costs of $3,000 a mile. People took care of me so the whole trip Cost Only about $4,000," he says. Eva Shain May agree that Andy Warhol s sense of time was wrong. Back in 1977, she became the first woman to judge a world heavyweight championship fight Muhammed Ali is. Ernie shavers. She s still in the business. Although her expertise was not needed she Thomas Powner with 1959 clipping from time he and a family spent two weeks in a fallout shelter. Was a judge at the 91 second world heavyweight fight Between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks. She says she still gets Calls about her headline making 1977 appointment. It was a Surprise to her. I thought i was doing the under card. It was t until i got there that i found out i was doing the championship  a feature article on her then appeared in the new York times and she received two proposals by mail although she has been married for years to ring announcer Frank Shain who appeared in the movie raging Bull As the ring announcer. Mrs. Shain appeared on what s my line and to Tell the truth As Well As other television shows at the time. Firsts seem to beget firsts. She was also the first woman inducted into the new Jersey boxing Hall of Fame the first woman to judge a fight on an aircraft Carrier the Lexington in Pensacola fla., the first woman to work professional fights in new Jersey her Home state and in Texas. The Thomas owners and their three children in 1959 endured two weeks in a fallout shelter for the nuclear family reportedly aided by a copy of lady Chatterley s Lover Tranquili Zers and  Thomas Powner who worked at Princeton University at the time and is still a schoolteacher says several scientists asked him if he would consider the stunt for the family. Powner recalls that his wife now deceased had second thoughts but they went ahead. They were paid he remembers about $600. Actually there was Only one bottle of whiskey. We Only had a few drinks but there were lots of books and we read a lot he says. Like mrs. Shain the family s picture was on the front pages when they came out. They went on to appear on television shows of the time who do you Trust the Dave Garroway show the Henry Morgan show. They also made some commercials afterwards and his wife travelled extensively on behalf of the civil defense Campaign a Campaign now All but forgotten. Powner 58 and remarried says his students always know about his sheltered past and he retells the Story for each new class. In the sporting world firsts Are numerous obscure and remembered More by the statisticians than by the record holders. Take Larry Doby the second Black player in the majors the second Black manager and now at 64, Community relations director for the new Jersey nets of the Aba. Asked who was the first Black player to hit a Home run in a world series Doby said i Don t know. Jackie i  informed that it was none other than himself he laughed. Me he said. I guess because i be been the second so often i m always surprised to hear that i was the first at  he did remember however the blow and that he hit it off the Boston braves Johnny Sain in the third inning of the fourth game. And who was the first professional baseball player Alfred James reach an outfielder for the Philadelphia athletics of the National association. From 1871 to 1875, he played in 82 games but he s in the record books because in 1874 he received the princely sum of $1,000 for playing in 14 games. There is no explanation Why the other players seemed to play Gratis. Steve Newman walks Down a Chicago Street in october 1986 on the last leg of his Solo walk around the world. Firs time associated press things As Well As people fall into famous firsts  you know or care that Kreuger Beer brewed in Newtown ., was the first Beer sold in cans that was in 1935. Or that the first automatic toll collector went into service nov. 19,1954, on new Jersey s Garden state Parkway. Or that the first indoor ski slope opened in Buffalo n.y.,. 17,1962? the Bikini was first displayed at a Paris Salon by French designer Louis Reaud on july 5, 1946, an event that perhaps contributed to the entire anti cellulite Industry workout tapes and ogling As a higher Art form. The first drive in theater that opened june 6, 1933, on Wilson Boulevard in Camden  Conclusions about its contributions to the culture Are too numerous to be listed but it undoubtedly created a plethora of personal firsts not to be recorded in reference books. Parkinson s Law work expands to fill the time for its completion was invented in 1958 by Cyril Parkinson a historian. Hula hoops were swiped from the australians and brought to the United states in 1959. They re still around. In May 1987, the first health club for dogs opened in Paris in january 1986, the entire Bible was translated into Navajo for the first time and the first hotel to have a Gideon Bible slipped into the bedside table was the Superior hotel in Iron Mountain mont., on nov. 10, 1908, All among matters duly recorded in a Book famous first  if you re overextended on your plastic you can thank Frank Mcnamara and Ralph Schneider both of whom Are now deceased. In 1950, they started diner s club the first credit card. The first cards were Given to 200 subscribers who could use them at 27 restaurants in the new York City area. The fee was $5 and their growth makes Topsy look like a Bonsai tree. By the next year hotels and nightclubs were added. In 1952, the idea moved to the West coast in 1953 it went International and by the mid-1950s everybody was in the act. Lots of firsts ended up in the first graveyard. Sample chemical Bank of new York City struck a dubious first on dec. 22, 1972, when it decided to show motion pictures to its customers waiting in line. Not too Many of those around today. And in 1955 Robert Mcgill  with a one Man rocket powered helicopter that could be strapped to the flyer s Back and guided by a throttle. Enthusiasts thought it would revolutionize warfare not to mention commuting but it proved to be another first without progeny. Things Page 14 the stars and stripes saturday augusts 1988 the stars and stripes Page 15