“What a character!”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 31st 2017
In
addition to Jim and Marian Jordan’s star turns as Fibber McGee and Molly
on The Johnson Wax Program in the
1930s, the c
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Let’s have another cup of coffee…
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 25th 2017
No less an authority than TV Guide declared Father Knows Best to
be “the quintessentially comforting 50s sitcom.” A generat
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Happy Birthday, Lou Krugman!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 19th 2017
It
seems odd that an actor who claimed to have emoted on over 10,000 radio
broadcasts and provided voiceovers for 700 comme
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Happy Birthday, Milton Berle!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 12th 2017
At the height of his phenomenal
fame on television as the star of The
Texaco Star Theatre, Milton Berle was the target of a
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Happy Birthday, Paul Frees!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 22nd 2017
“Paul
Frees is EVERYWHERE!” A cartoonist of my acquaintance adopted that
statement as both a personal mantra and a tribute
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“They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.” — President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 6th 2017
On
this date in 1944, the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
got underway in one of the most pivotal bat
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