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Happy Birthday, Harry Von Zell!

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 5th 2021

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

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 16th 2021

For actor Henry Fonda, the old “third time’s the charm” idiom certainly rang true in 1982. He was recognized by his peers a

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

“Ben was one of the last of the true English gentlemen in the Edwardian sense of the word, with an accent on the gentle,” r

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 26th 2021

Old-time radio fans remember actor Victor Herbert Perrin—born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin on this date in 1916—as a membe