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Articles / News“…the bulkiest, balkiest, smartest, most unpredictable detective in the world…”
By Ivan G Shreve Jr On this date in 1943, the first of several attempts to introduce radio to ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Frances Langford!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr “Just play it like a nagging wife” was comedy writer Philip Rapp’s suggestion to ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Paula Winslowe!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr The untimely death of “platinum blonde” Jean Harlow at the age of 26 was ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Ozzie Nelson!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr In 1930, Oswald George Nelson—who would have been celebrating his birthday today—graduated with a law degree ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Georgia Ellis!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr Georgia Ellis, the actress who co-starred on what is fondly remembered by legions of ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Virginia Gregg!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr In our natal anniversary spotlight today is one of old-time radio’s indisputable veterans. She ...
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Articles / News“From Times Square to Columbus Circle…the gaudiest, the most violent—the lonesomest mile in the world…”
By Ivan G Shreve Jr By the beginning of the 1950s, radio crime drama began to develop a new ...
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Articles / NewsHappy birthday, Gale Gordon!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr If you were to go to a dictionary to look up the meaning of ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Jimmy Durante!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr From the 1920s and onward, James Francis Durante—born in Manhattan on this date in ...
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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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