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Happy Birthday, Portland Hoffa!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 25th 2019

It pains me to have to say this…but I have heard from many an old-time radio devotee that Portland Hoffa—born on this date

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 18th 2019

The date was June 9, 1986 and the borough of Brooklyn was awash with the celebrative gaiety of its Back to Brooklyn Day Fes

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 30th 2018

Actress Jeanette Nolan—born in Los Angeles on this date in 1911—met future husband John McIntire while working on a West Co

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 13th 2018

“Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, ‘You will never get the girl at the end,’” recalled actor Van Heflin once in an

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

In my days of higher education—where it was joked that I had spent so much time in college, ivy had started to grow up my l

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