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Happy Birthday, Rex Stout!

Happy Birthday, Rex Stout!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 1st 2018

He became famous for creating Nero Wolfe—a character memorably described by an author at The Thrilling Detective Website a
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Happy Birthday, Elliott Lewis!

Happy Birthday, Elliott Lewis!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 28th 2018

“Elliott Lewis was the greatest actor of them all,” declared veteran radio scribe E. Jack Neuman in an interview with Leona
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Happy Birthday, Bernard Lenrow!

Happy Birthday, Bernard Lenrow!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 24th 2018

When the popular radio crime anthology known as The Mollé Mystery Theatre premiered over NBC in the fall of 1943, the host
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Happy Birthday, Frank Readick!

Happy Birthday, Frank Readick!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 6th 2018

The actor born Frank Winfield Russell Marion Derwent Readick, Jr. (that’s what he called himself in a 1932 issue of Radio G
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Happy Birthday, Parker Fennelly!

Happy Birthday, Parker Fennelly!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 22nd 2018

It would become one of radio’s most beloved weekly rituals in the late 1940s: comedian Fred Allen would venture into “Allen
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Happy Birthday, Barton Yarborough!

Happy Birthday, Barton Yarborough!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 2nd 2018

Despite the fact that radio’s I Love a Mystery had closed up shop over CBS Radio on December 29, 1944, Columbia Pictures wa
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