Happy Birthday, Jack Carson!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 27th 2022
If you’re familiar with the career of the comic
actor born John Elmer Carson on this date in 1910, you’ve no doubt
heard Ja
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“Better things for better living, through chemistry…”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 9th 2022
A dilemma faced E. I. du
Pont de Nemours and Company, a Wilmington, Delaware firm founded in
1802 as a gunpowder mill. It w
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“America’s favorite young couple…”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 8th 2022
On
this date in 1935, bandleader Oswald George Nelson (we know him as “Ozzie
Nelson”) tied the knot with Peggy Sue Snyder (
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Happy Anniversary, Ronald and Benita Colman!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 30th 2022
One of the more charming features of the radio
sitcom The Halls of Ivy was college president William
Todhunter Hall’s (Rona
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Happy Birthday, Dick Haymes!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 13th 2022
The man born Richard Benjamin
Haymes in Buenos Aires, Argentina on this date in 1918 was at one time a
serious rival to Bin
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“Evening, friends…welcome to Springdale…”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 6th 2022
An old-time radio
website asks the ($64) question: “What if Old Mr. Potter, the meanest man in
town, was actually the Mayor
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