Remembering Carson Pirie Scott, Bruno Sammartino, Verne Troyer, Carl Kasell, Art Bell, Nabi Tajima

Carson Pirie Scott was the venerable Midwestern department store that was a mainstay on Chicago’s State Street for over a century. Bruno Sammartino was perhaps the best-known professional wrestler of his time and a world champion for over ten years. Verne Troyer was the diminutive actor who was Mike Meyers’s double as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series. Carl Kasell was the mellifluous NPR news anchor and co-anchor of the popular radio show, Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. Art Bell was the late-night radio call-in host who specialized in the mysterious and paranormal. Nabi Tajima was the oldest surviving person in the world, the last person to be born in the 19th Century.