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Happy Birthday, Marvin Miller!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 18th 2021

Though his show business career of nearly half-a-century extended to radio, TV, and motion pictures, the actor-announcer bo

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 13th 2021

Triskaidekaphobia. I didn’t make this word up; it’s the technical term for fear of the number “13.” The man born Phillips H

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 11th 2021

It’s now one of the best-remembered and oft-told anecdotes of radio history. A young CBS announcer born Harry Rudolph Von Z

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 27th 2021

In the mid-1930s, actor-announcer John Herrick McIntire—born in Spokane, Washington on this date in 1907—decided, along wit

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 7th 2021

When actor Walter Paterson committed suicide in 1942, One Man’s Family creator Carlton E. Morse made the decision to elimi

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 5th 2021

The man born Herbert (some sources spell it “Herburt”) Vigran in Cincinnati, Ohio on this date in 1910 would become one