Oprah's lucky break came at 17 when a Nashville, Tennessee, radio station chose her as its entry in a local beauty pageant based on her spunk during a radio interview. "I was the only Negro in a pageant of all red­ haired girls, and it's the Miss Fire Prevention'...

One man's discard can be another man's creed. Robert Woodruff, who became president of Coca-Cola in 1923, was perfectly happy selling "sugared water," and stated that before he died that he wanted every man, women and child on earth to have tasted Coca Cola. When they...

Mother of cute Canadian teenager Justin Bieber uploaded a video to YouTube of him singing. Bieber's mother Pattie Mallette, who was underage at the time of giving birth, raised her son with the help of her mother and stepfather. Pattie worked a series of low-paying...