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Articles / NewsBoy Wonder: The Radio Life of Orson Welles
By Elizabeth McLeod Some performers take a lifetime to reach their full potential, and some pack an entire lifetime’s ...
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Articles / NewsMcCambridge for the Defense: Mercedes McCambridge and Defense Attorney
By Elizabeth McLeod Often a supporting player, rarely a star — and yet she won an Oscar for her ...
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Articles / NewsA Birthday Valentine to Jack Benny
By Ivan Shreve, Jr. You’ve been seeing Valentine’s Day TV commercials for weeks now, and I’ll bet dollars to ...
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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 / NewsLet George Do It: The Detective With A Difference
By Elizabeth McLeod When you think of the typical “1940’s noir private eye,” certain images come to mind — ...
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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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