Blog - Page 65 - Radio Spirits

“I get ten a day and expenses…they call me the Lyon’s Eye.”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 10th 2014

During his stint at San Francisco’s KGO in the mid-1940s, John Randolph “Jack” Webb earned his initial radio bona fides as

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 26th 2014

On this date in 1904, a son was born to Alajos Löwenstein and Elvira Freischberger in an Austria-Hungarian village that is n

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 23rd 2014

Today’s birthday girl was born Sadye Marks 109 years ago on this date in Seattle, Washington—the daughter of newly arrived

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 14th 2014

With the manpower shortage during World War II, reformed safecracker-jewel thief Horatio “Boston Blackie” Black (Chester Mo

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 3rd 2014

As San Francisco antiquities dealer Philip Dressler (Raymond Bailey) disembarks from a cruise ship, a porter snatches one o

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 20th 2014

Jewel thief “Diamond” Ed Barnaby (Walter Baldwin) has just been paroled from prison, and his loving daughter Betty (Ann Sav