Happy Birthday, Les Damon!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 31st 2017
Lester Joseph Damon—born in
Providence, RI on this date in 1908—was memorably described by my Radio Spirits
colleague Eliza
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Happy Birthday, Alonzo Deen Cole!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 22nd 2017
Before
radio audiences eagerly anticipated each week the memorably unsettling sound of
a creaking door (on Inner Sanctum My
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“…I take this same train every week at this time…”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 5th 2016
On this date in 1943, one of the
Mutual Broadcasting System’s longest-lasting and most popular programs
premiered in the fo
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Happy Birthday, Everett Sloane!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 1st 2016
In the 1941 movie classic Citizen Kane, Kane’s
business manager Mr. Bernstein makes an observation that remains in the
memo
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Happy Birthday, Lesley Woods!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 22nd 2016
Actress
Lesley Woods is described in author Jim Cox’s compendium The Great
Radio Soap Operas as someone who “made a career
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“Lights out…everybody!”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 17th 2016
In
the early years of Radio’s Golden Age, those individuals who worked in radio
discovered fairly quickly that the medium w
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