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Articles / NewsOn The Night Beat: Radio’s Hardboiled Reporter
By Elizabeth McLeod Newspaper reporters may seem a quaint relic of the past in this day of pajama-clad “citizen ...
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Articles / NewsLiving The Life of Riley
By Elizabeth McLeod If there’s a single phrase which might describe the basic concept underlying the standard family situation ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Ezra Stone!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr The star of radio’s The Aldrich Family, Ezra Stone, may have portrayed an endearingly ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Shirley Mitchell!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr Couch potatoes remember Shirley Mitchell as Lucy Ricardo’s pal Marion Strong, the women’s club ...
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Articles / NewsSomebody, I Say, Somebody Knocked! Fred Allen and His Alley
By Elizabeth McLeod It was created out of necessity, and it became a cultural touchstone of the 1940’s: a ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Lawrence Dobkin!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr There are eight million stories in the naked city…and today we’ll highlight one of ...
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Articles / NewsTalent Enough for Two: The Story of Teddy Bergman and Alan Reed
by Elizabeth McLeod Radio offered plenty of opportunities in its golden era for performers with a versatile voice. The ...
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Articles / NewsWhere the Elite Meet to Eat – Ed Gardner and Duffy’s Tavern
By Elizabeth McLeod To paraphrase Fred Allen, imitation was the sincerest form of radio. Throughout the medium’s Golden Era, ...
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Audio StreamsThe Houdini Seance
Halloween, a day fit for the anniversary of the death of a magic legend. Harry Houdini was a legendary ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Hanley Stafford!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr The actor who achieved his greatest fame on radio as the best foil Fanny ...
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