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Happy Birthday, Bernard Lenrow!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 24th 2018

When the popular radio crime anthology known as The Mollé Mystery Theatre premiered over NBC in the fall of 1943, the host

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 18th 2018

The most fortuitous event that occurred in the life of writer-cartoonist Don Quinn—born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on this d

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

The actor born Frank Winfield Russell Marion Derwent Readick, Jr. (that’s what he called himself in a 1932 issue of Radio G

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 22nd 2018

It would become one of radio’s most beloved weekly rituals in the late 1940s: comedian Fred Allen would venture into “Allen

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 3rd 2018

In his essential reference encyclopedia of old-time radio, On the Air, author John Dunning notes that actor William Gargan’

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 2nd 2018

Despite the fact that radio’s I Love a Mystery had closed up shop over CBS Radio on December 29, 1944, Columbia Pictures wa