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Articles / NewsPERIOD, END OF REPORT: Sam Spade on Radio
By Elizabeth McLeod Radio wasn’t all about hard-boiled detectives — even though you might think so given the popularity ...
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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 / 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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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, Basil Rathbone!
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. Basil Rathbone was born in 1892—and I’ll come clean right from the get-go: I ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Bob Bailey!
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. Robert Bainter Bailey was born in Toledo, OH on this date in 1913. Though ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Judy Garland!
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.For generations both old and new, Judy Garland—born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Vincent Price!
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. If actor Vincent Price—born Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. on this date in St. Louis, ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Arthur Conan Doyle!
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. As a medical student at the University of Edinburgh from 1876 through 1881, Arthur ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, James Stewart!
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. James Maitland Stewart, the Academy Award-winning actor beloved by theatergoers as “the boy next ...
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