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Articles / News“…who teaches English at Madison High School…”
By Ivan G Shreve Jr When Paramount Pictures brought the hit Broadway musical Grease to the big screen in ...
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Articles / News“I get ten a day and expenses…they call me the Lyon’s Eye.”
By Ivan G Shreve Jr During his stint at San Francisco’s KGO in the mid-1940s, John Randolph “Jack” Webb ...
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Articles / News“Under the cold, glaring lights pass the innocent…the vagrant…the thief…the murderer…”
By Ivan G Shreve Jr The introduction of Jack Webb’s Dragnet to NBC Radio’s schedule in June of 1949 ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Phil Harris!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr The man who let audiences know what he liked about the South would have ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Mary Livingstone!
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. This week’s birthday girl was born Sadye Marks in Seattle, Washington—the daughter of newly ...
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Articles / News“…true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land from every time…”
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. Even as he continued to convulse audiences weekly in the 1950s as Frankie Remley, ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Walter Tetley!
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. It wasn’t a drink from the legendary Fountain of Youth that kept today’s birthday ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Mel Blanc!
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. In the 1949 Looney Tunes short Curtain Razor, cartoon star Porky Pig channels his ...
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Articles / NewsYes, Please? The Days In the Life of Dennis Day
By Elizabeth McLeod Part of what made The Jack Benny Program memorable was the endearing presence of Jack’s “gang.” ...
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Articles / NewsThat whistle is your signal for the anniversary…of The Whistler…
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. Seventy-five years ago on this date, radio’s best-known omniscient narrator took the first of ...
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