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Happy Birthday, Mary Lansing!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 10th 2023

“The Big Easy” (New Orleans, Louisiana) welcomed actress Mary Lansing on this date in 1911. From 1933 until 1970, Lansing w

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 9th 2023

On this date in 1937, a program that would soon become the number one radio show in the nation premiered over the Red networ

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 26th 2023

On this date in 1931, radio listeners paid their first visit to the sleepy little Arkansas hamlet of Pine Ridge to sit arou

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 10th 2023

On this date in 1943, the literary sleuth created by Drexel Drake made his radio debut on the Blue Network with a series tha

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 28th 2023

The actor fondly remembered by old-time radio fans as the reporter who covered the “night beat” for the fictional Chicago S

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 20th 2023

In 1930, Oswald George Nelson—born in Jersey City, New Jersey on this date in 1906—graduated with a law degree from Rutgers