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Happy Birthday, Basil Rathbone!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 13th 2016

Basil Rathbone was born on this date in 1892—and I’ll come clean right from the get-go: I am a tremendous fan of the actor’

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 2nd 2016

In Leonard Maltin’s old-time radio memoir The Great American Broadcast, veteran announcer Jackson Beck recalled a most amus

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 30th 2016

One-half of the comedy team that served as my introduction to old-time radio was born one hundred and ten years ago on this

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 22nd 2016

As a medical student at the University of Edinburgh from 1876 through 1881, Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle—born in Edinburgh o

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 8th 2016

A doorbell rings at a residence in the Midwest, and the all-too-trusting couple that resides inside welcomes their visitor

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 5th 2016

During the 1930s and early 1940s, actress-singer Alice Faye—born in New York City on this date in 1915—was one of 20th Cent