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“…we love the Halls of Ivy/That surround us here today…”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 6th 2019

From the moment writer Don Quinn first met vaudevillian Jim Jordan at the studios of Chicago’s WENR in the early 1930s, the

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 30th 2018

Actress Jeanette Nolan—born in Los Angeles on this date in 1911—met future husband John McIntire while working on a West Co

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 13th 2018

“Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, ‘You will never get the girl at the end,’” recalled actor Van Heflin once in an

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 6th 2018

In my days of higher education—where it was joked that I had spent so much time in college, ivy had started to grow up my l

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 1st 2018

He became famous for creating Nero Wolfe—a character memorably described by an author at The Thrilling Detective Website a

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 28th 2018

“Elliott Lewis was the greatest actor of them all,” declared veteran radio scribe E. Jack Neuman in an interview with Leona