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“Always ready with a hand for oppressed men…and an eye for repressed women…”

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

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 1st 2023

On this date in 1941, radio audiences made their first visit to a dingy, dank East Side watering hole affectionately known a

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 8th 2023

Automobile magnate Henry Ford was anxious to locate an announcer for his Sunday evening symphony program, known to radio li

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 15th 2023

At Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the motion picture studio where she was employed, child star Margaret O’Brien and her fellow MGM st