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"To these and other announcers and performers who help us sell our clients' goods and services on television, BBDO sends its appreciative greetings" (1953)
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Dave Garroway hosting the first episode of The Today Show, January 14, 1952.
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Dave Garroway: Today and Yesterday
Few people in show business have enjoyed such a huge impact in the daily lives of millions of Americans and then vanished from the public consciousness so utterly Dave Garroway (1913-1982). Those readers above a certain age (rather an advanced one nowadays) will instantly know who he is; most others will draw a blank. So we hasten to impart his important role: among other things, he (along with…
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Happy 89th birthday to Nancy Kovack!
Kovack played the female lead, bad girl Sophie Renault, opposite Mike Henry in “Tarzan and the Valley of Gold” (1966).
Born Nancy Diane Kovach on March 11, 1935, in Flint, Michigan, she attended the University of Michigan and worked as a radio announcer while winning a series of beauty contests. Kovack then moved to New York, where she worked as one of Jackie Gleason’s “Glea Girls” and served as a presenter on “Beat the Clock”, and as an anchorwoman on “Today” and for “The Dave Garroway Show”, while earning extra money through modeling and commercials.
A role on Broadway in “The Disenchanted” (1958-59) led to a Columbia Pictures contract, and her film debut, “Strangers When We Meet” (1960). Additional big-screen credits include “Cry for Happy” (1960), “The Wild Westerners” (1962), “Diary of a Madman” (1963), “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963), “The Outlaws Is Coming” (1965), “Sylvia” (1965), “The Great Sioux Massacre” (1965), “Frankie and Johnny” (1966), “The Silencers” (1966), “Enter Laughing” (1967), and “Marooned” (1969). On television, she appeared in popular series like “12 O’Clock High,” “Burke’s Law,” “I Dream of Jeannie,” “Batman,” “Perry Mason,” “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” “I Spy,” “Star Trek,” “The F.B.I.,” “Family Affair,” “Get Smart,” “Bewitched,” “Mannix,” “Hawaii Five-O,” “Get Smart,” “Bronk,” and “Cannon.”
Following her marriage to Los Angeles and New York Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta, Kovack retired from acting.
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#RudyTuesday This is a production photo of Garroway at Large, an experimental NBC variety show program broadcast from Chicago at 10 p.m. on Saturdays (and later on Sundays and Fridays) starting in April 1949. 
Hosted by Dave Garroway, the program aired with a full symphony orchestra, two female singers, Betty Chapel and Connie Russell, and a male singer, Jack Haskell. In addition, the Hamilton Trio, a contemporary dance group, appeared each week, along with comedian Cliff Norton.
Garroway abandoned the familiar theatrical proscenium concept for a more casual approach in which the reality of the studio was acknowledged. Followed by a single camera, he walked around the entire large studio space and simple abstract sets as he directly talked to guests and the TV viewer. This live staging technique, known as the "Chicago Style," was developed further on Garroway's next show, Today. (Wikipedia)
One in a series of photos from the Rudy Bretz papers at UMD.
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TV Guide -  August 18 - 24, 1962
William Lawrence Francis Cullen (February 18, 1920 – July 7, 1990) was an American radio and television personality whose career spanned five decades. His biggest claim to fame was as a game show host; over the course of his career, he hosted 23 shows, and earned the nickname “Dean of Game Show Hosts”. Aside from his hosting duties, he appeared as a panelist/celebrity guest on many other game shows, including regular appearances on I’ve Got a Secret and To Tell the Truth. (Wikipedia)
Betsy Palmer (born Patricia Betsy Hrunek November 1, 1926 – May 29, 2015)  Actress known as a regular supporting movie and Broadway actress and television guest star, as a panelist on the game show I’ve Got a Secret.  (Wikipedia)
Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) Politician, model and television actress who became famous in 1945 as the first Jewish Miss America. Myerson is the only Jewish woman to win the title.
A few years after hearing her speak at an ADL function, television producer Walt Framer hired Myerson for the 1950s game show The Big Payoff. She was the “Lady in Mink” modeling the grand prize mink coat, and introducing guests and prizes, throughout the 1951 to 1959 network run of the program. Recognized for her wit and hard work, as well as her beauty, in 1954 Myerson was a panelist on the game show The Name’s the Same and from 1958 through 1967 a panelist on I’ve Got a Secret. She regularly substituted for Dave Garroway on the Today Show. She was also a host of the television broadcast of the Miss America pageant from 1954 to 1968  (Wikipedia)
Henry Morgan (born Henry Lerner Van Ost Jr.; March 31, 1915 – May 19, 1994) American humorist. He first became familiar to radio audiences in the 1930s and 1940s as a barbed but often self-deprecating satirist; in the 1950s and later, he was a regular and cantankerous panelist on the game show I’ve Got a Secret as well as other game and talk shows. Morgan was a second cousin of Broadway lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner.   (Wikipedia)
Garry Moore (1916 - 1993) Entertainer, game show host and comedian best known for his work in TV.
He hosted The Garry Moore Show, and the game shows I’ve Got a Secret and To Tell the Truth.  His Tuesday night variety show provided a break into show business for many performers, including Alan King, Jonathan Winters, Carol Burnett, and Dorothy Loudon.  (Wikipedia)
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Events 1.14
1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. 1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1639 – The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut. 1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marathas. 1784 – American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain. 1814 – Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of Norway to Charles XIII of Sweden in return for Pomerania. 1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt made by Felice Orsini and his accomplices in Paris. 1899 – RMS Oceanic (1899) is launched. She is the largest ship afloat since Brunel's SS Great Eastern. 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's Tosca opens in Rome. 1907 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people. 1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. 1939 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. 1943 – World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign. 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war. 1951 – National Airlines Flight 83 crashes during landing at Philadelphia International Airport, killing seven passengers and crew. 1952 – NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway. 1953 – Josip Broz Tito is elected the first President of Yugoslavia. 1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation. 1957 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. 1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority authorized by the 1959 Reserve Bank Act, is established. 1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. 1969 – USS Enterprise fire: An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 people. 1972 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederik or Christian since 1513. 1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history. 1993 – In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved. 2004 – The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years. 2010 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda. 2011 – President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia seeks refuge in Saudi Arabia after a series of demonstrations against his regime, considered to be the birth of the Arab Spring. 2019 – A Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crashes at Fath Air Base near Karaj in Alborz Province, Iran, killing 15 people.
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Stay Golden Sunday: Mister Terrific
Rose dates a kid's TV show host, who is fired after Dorothy joins the production staff. Blanche goes bed-shopping.
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Dorothy triumphantly tells Sophia that she's received several offers for summer jobs, which Sophia attributes to her showing leg. Blanche arrives and says she's been out bed-shopping, as her old one is a wreck (for perhaps obvious reasons). Rose then returns home and excitedly says she's met "Mister Terrific." She's not being hyperbolic, either -- she met the host of children's TV show "Mister Terrific's Clubhouse," got his autograph and a dinner date with him.
SOPHIA: In Sicily, beds were dirt-cheap. Of course, it was because you slept on dirt. *Dorothy looks bemusedly at her.* Just an observation. If my name were Mark Twain, you'd be writing this stuff down.
The next day, Blanche returns home in the evening and Sophia tells her the delivery people spent all day setting up a fancy brass bed in her room. Blanche is confused -- that's not what she ordered. Rose enters, dressed up for another date with her superhero boyfriend. Blanche checks her bedroom and confirms they delivered the wrong bed -- but they charged her for the simple, inexpensive bed she ordered. Rose protests Blanche shouldn't keep the bed, but Blanche thinks she'll chance it.
The doorbell rings: It's Mister Terrific, who seems to live in his TV persona. He makes nice with Blanche and Sophia, but Dorothy arrives home and is not in the mood for conversation: Her plum summer job sounds extremely boring. Mister Terrific (whose real name still hasn't been established) says there's a consulting position on his show for which she'd be a good fit.
DOROTHY: If you can do anything to help me, it would be really... M.T.: Terrific? Nice meeting you! Goodbye! DOROTHY: Goodbye and thank you! SOPHIA: Don't count on that job, Dorothy. Many women have had their hopes dashed by smooth-talking TV sharpies. Dave Garroway told me, if I treated him right, I'd be his sidekick on The Today Show. I said no . . . and he ended up with a monkey. Draw you own conclusions.
Weeks later, Dorothy's apparently gotten the job as she's sitting on the set of Mister Terrific's Clubhouse during filming. Terrific does his whole schtick with his puppet companion, Kolak. Freddie, the secondary actor, ruins the take by showing up as a mailman character (he's supposed to be a policeman). As they break for a cartoon, the show's producer Hastings tells Dorothy he likes her proposed improvements to the show. He calls Terrific to his office after they wrap filming.
Back at the house, Blanche says she feels incredible guilt over the brass bed. Sophia says she can still return it, but Blanche has already put some wear on it in three weeks. Rose and Dorothy arrive, with Dorothy saying the producer liked her recommendations. She also encourages Blanche to return her bed. The bell rings -- it's Mister Terrific, still in costume. He dramatically says they fired him . . . and that it's Dorothy's fault.
BLANCHE: I haven't had a decent night's sleep in weeks. Every time I climb into bed, I feel guilty. SOPHIA: Take down the video equipment. BLANCHE: I'm talking about the brass bed. I shouldn't have kept it. Rose is right, it's just like stealing. SOPHIA: Then call the store and return it. BLANCHE: Oh, I can't do that. I've had it over three weeks. They won't take it back! SOPHIA: How much wear can you give a bed in just three weeks? *Blanche gives her a look* I see your point.
According to Terrific, the producers loved Dorothy's ideas and fired him when he refused to use them. Dorothy says she never intended for that to happen and says she'll advocate for him to get his job back. Terrific gives Dorothy a phone number, saying he'll wait for a call until filming begins the next day. At the studio, Dorothy tells Hastings to call Terrific and put him back on the air, but he has a better idea.
Rose meets Mister Terrific at a bar, where he's waiting for the call. He says Mister Terrific was all his own creation, and he doesn't want the show to end this way. Everyone swivels to look at the TV set: Dorothy is on the set of Mister Terrific's Clubhouse as guest host "Mrs. School Teacher." Terrific swans out, saying he's got a backup plan. On the set, Dorothy is floundering as Kolak's puppeteer is doing the most to sabotage her. Everyone else on the set wants Mister Terrific back.
DOROTHY: Why don't you come inside? M.T.: I can't fly from inside. That's how Superman does it. I have to fly from the ledge. That's how we do it back on the planet Twylar. ROSE: How's he doing? DOROTHY: I'll be honest, right now Squeaky Fromme has a better grasp on reality.
Rose runs in, furious, saying Terrific thinks she stole his job. An assistant says Terrific is outside on a ledge, apparently about to jump (the producer yanks the stage manager in to do the show). Out on the ledge, Dorothy tries to talk him down, but Terrific is full-on delulu, saying he's going to fly around the building. Rose and Dorothy apparently can't talk him down, so Rose decides to get out on the ledge with him.
Not even Rose's presence deters Terrific, who says she can fly with him. He picks Rose up princess-style and, in front of Dorothy and all of his fans, jumps from the ledge -- to dangle dramatically in midair from a harness, Rose still in his arms. Later that night, Terrific tells the Girls that the publicity stunt won him his job back. Blanche enters, overwrought with guilt and misunderstands when she admits Freddie (now in his policeman costume) and drags him back to her bedroom.
FREDDIE: You know what's funny? I was supposed to be Mister Mailman today.
"In St. Olaf, they think that Freud is a way to cook chicken!"
There are very few episodes of The Golden Girls where I come away from a viewing thinking, "Okay, the writers/producers/etc were on something when they wrote this." But the Mister Terrific episode is definitely one of them. Half of the show is taken up by guest star Bob Dishy doing an exaggerated parody of public access children's shows, none of the Girls act like themselves, and even the B-plot feels oddly detached from reality.
The funniest part, to me? I could forgive all of that, were it not for the fact that the main guest star and love interest of the episode, Mister Terrific, is one of the most singularly awful characters of the show's entire run. Wanna do a surreal kiddie show satire? That's fine. But having the character upon whose back the entire premise hangs be so self-absorbed, delusional, and ridiculous puts it beyond my limits, especially when he steals so much screen time from the Girls.
ROSE: I'm nuts about that guy! DOROTHY: You'd have to be. ROSE: But you know, it's so strange. You have no idea what it's like dating a superhero. DOROTHY: Sure I can. Why my Stan and Superman had a lot in common. They were both faster than a speeding bullet.
I know Golden Girls has its silly moments, and I would never accuse it of being the most grounded show ever made. However, as sitcoms go it generally hews pretty closely to realism. But this episode chucks all that out of the window, opting for a weird unreal vibe where it seems everyone in Miami is committed to feeding into the delusions of an actor on a children's show -- well, at least some of Miami. The ones who yell "Jump" when he pulls his publicity stunt are clearly over his nonsense.
I'm not sure what it says about the writing of this episode that the Mister Terrific character never even gets a real name. He's just Mister Terrific, even to his asshole producer. And that might be because the guy is so far up his own backend that he rarely breaks persona, even when he's going on a date with Rose. That, in and of itself, would be a dealbreaker for me as a viewer, but it's the fact that he blames Dorothy for his being fired despite being the one who got her the job in the first place just makes it even worse.
BLANCHE: Dorothy, can I ask you a question? What do you think I oughta do with my bed? DOROTHY: Put it in the Smithsonian, Blanche. I mean, it has more miles on it than the Spirit of St. Louis.
Speaking of which, it seems mightily unfair for everyone, including Terrific's co-stars, to act like it's Dorothy's fault that he gets fired. The producers were the ones who wanted an education consultant to improve the show, and the actors proceed to throw a tantrum when they want to use said suggestions. From what the producer says, the show was on a downward trend and they were looking for an excuse to fire him anyway. But I'm supposed to believe him dangling from a crane for a few minutes is enough to salvage his job?
To make matters even worse, he decides to scare the crap out of Dorothy and put Rose in danger by letting them think his flying publicity stunt was for real. Despite Rose's insistence that he'd never drop her, she was not in any kind of safety equipment while she's several stories in the air. Between that and snapping at Rose for not wearing a promotional pin for his show, I'm all the way over this character. For him alone, I usually skip this episode.
ROSE: Blanche, do you think--? BLANCHE: Not now! *runs into her bedroom* ROSE: What's her hurry? SOPHIA: Didn't you see that enormous thing in her bedroom? ROSE: I thought she'd stopped seeing Roger?
The B-plot has me all kinds of confused. Blanche is shopping for a new bed as her old one is ruined -- wonder why? -- and is boggled by the prices. She buys a cheap one and accidentally gets a big, expensive one instead. But strangely, all three of her roommates say she shouldn't keep the bed, as that would be tantamount to stealing and eventually the guilt drives her slightly buggy.
I really don't see how is it stealing, though? It’s not Blanche’s fault they delivered the wrong bed and charged her for the cheap one. Why shouldn’t she keep it? Given it’s already in her house, the retailer would probably tell her to keep it regardless -- I definitely wouldn’t want to be the one to try and peddle a used brass bedstead, especially not if I had to pay to get it disassembled and returned.
SOPHIA: You don't mean that clown with the kiddie show? ROSE: No, he's not a clown. He's a superhero! You're thinking of Bozo. SOPHIA: I'm talking to Bozo.
One final note: Is it just me, or do none of the characters act like themselves in this episode? Dorothy and Rose seem committed to feeding Mister Terrific's nonsense, and Blanche for some reason develops a guilty conscience over her bed. The Girls feel like they're working in service to the plot, not the other way around, if that makes sense. And I don't know why -- it's a goddamned terrible plot.
Episode rating: 🍰🍰 (two slices out of five)
Favorite part of the episode
Dorothy knows her mother very well.
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Dave Garroway in his SS100 sports cars illustrated november 1955
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Edward R. Murrow: Person to Person
As we wrote in our recent send-off to Robert McNeil, hard journalists are generally outside of our biographical wheelhouse on Travalanche. But celebrity journalism is a horse of a different color. We’ve certainly written about a dozen or two newspaper columnists and critics from back in the day, and the occasional character from the TV news divisions, such as Barbara Walters or Dave Garroway,…
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TV DIGEST
August 9, 1952
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On August 9, 1952 Lucy and Desi were featured on the cover of TV Digest, a competitor of TV Guide as part of their inside story “Visiting The Stars on Vacation”.  The Digest was eventually absorbed by TV Guide when it went national in March 1953. 
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The Atlanta edition of TV Digest used this same cover image two weeks later, on August 23, 1952. The back cover is a full page ad for Atlanta’s Pat Murphey, an appliance business. Coming on the heels of the July presidential conventions, Murphey is pitching renting or buying a DuMont TV in preparation for the November election between GOP incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower (IKE) and the Democrat challenger Adlai Stevenson. 
The three bathing beauties also gracing the cover are not identified. This is a composite photo and the Arnazs’ and the three women were not photographed together. 
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Both magazines feature this Jerry Doyle cartoon “How TV Stars Take Vacations”.  
Lucille Ball is depicted with knitting needles and a stork with a doctors’ bag nearby, anticipating the birth of her baby in January 1953. 
Abe Burrows was a Broadway and radio author who spent the summer furiously writing (hence the sweat) and appearing on the TV panel show “The Name’s The Same”. 
Bob Hope and Sid Caesar, two of radio and TV’s most prolific comic actors, spent the summer of 1952 playing golf. 
Bert Parks is probably best remembered as the emcee of the Miss America Pageant. During 1952, Parks had several TV shows ending in the spring and beginning in the fall. He spent his summer boating. 
Red Skelton later talked about his summer vacation in the mountains and the beach on the September 28 episode of “The Red Skelton Show”. On the October 5 episode he talked about an earthquake that summer. On July 16, 1952, Central California was rocked by a 7.5 earthquake with 12 casualties. Skelton was hospitalized for an undisclosed ailment in the summer of 1952, explaining his depiction carrying a large bottle of prescription medication. 
Sam Levenson was a panelist on the CBS series “This Is Show Business” along with playwright George S. Kaufman and Abe Burrows. On the same date this issue of TV Digest was published (August 9, 1952) Levenson was featured on the cover of their rival TV Forecast. Levenson spent the summer being a new father. 
Perry Como was joining other recording artists of the time by transitioning to television. The summer of 1952 looks to have been spent on outdoor activities like fishing. 
Jimmy Durante was a vaudeville comic and film star who, during 1952, hosted “All Star Revue”. On July 28, 1952, Durante was featured on the cover of TV Forecast, a rival publication of TV Digest. 
Donald O’Connor was a song and dance man who had two films in release during the summer of 1952: Singin’ in the Rain and Francis Goes To West Point. 
Of the above celebrities, only Sam Levenson and Abe Burrows (both basically writers) never appeared on television with Lucille Ball. 
Other articles, ads, and features in this edition of TV Digest: 
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Bob Hope Exhibition Golf Tour with Jimmy Demaret ~ Both Hope and Demaret appeared on “I Love Lucy” as themselves. Golf was a favorite pastime of Desi Arnaz. 
Perry Como & Ed Sullivan ~ Lucy and Desi made several appearances on “Toast of the Town” aka “The Ed Sullivan Show” starting in 1954. Como appeared on the show in 1950 and 1956. 
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Sid Caesar’s Family ~ Caesar married Florence Levy in 1943 and they had three children together.  Caesar guest-starred on “The Lucy Show” in 1968. 
Arthur Godfrey (below left) ~ Hosted the lead-in program to “I Love Lucy” in 1951. He guest-starred on “The Lucy Show” in 1965. He was also an aviator. 
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“Guiding Light” (above right) ~ The soap opera began airing on CBS on June 30, 1952. It was canceled in 2009. In 1977, CBS stopped network reruns of Lucille Ball sitcoms in order to allow “Guiding Light” to expand to a full hour. 
Guy Madison & Andy Devine (below left) ~ played Wild Bill Hickok and Pete ‘Jingles’ Jones in the TV series “The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok” (1951-58) on CBS.
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“Racket Squad” (above right) ~ was a CBS crime drama from 1950 to 1953 originally sponsored by Philip Morris, just like “I Love Lucy.” 
Robert Montgomery & Angela Lansbury (below left) ~ were then collaborating on a second installment of his NBC show “Robert Montgomery Presents” (1950-58) which aired in 1953.  They first collaborated in 1950. Lucille Ball later played the role Lansbury made famous on stage in the musical Mame.  
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The Dave Garroway Story (above right) ~ Dave Garroway was then the host of the new NBC morning program “Today”. In 1952 he also hosted the first five episodes of “All Star Summer Revue” until it was taken over by Jan Murray on August 2. He interviewed Lucille Ball on his short-lived series “Garroway” in 1970. 
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Lucille Ball was also seen on the cover of TV Digest in October 1951 (her first on such a guide), May 1952, October 1952, November 1952, and December 1952. 
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The cover photo was part of a larger photo shoot of Lucy and Desi in a motorboat. 
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We just received an autographed copy of a book, Peace: The Wide, Wide World of Dave Garroway, Television's Original Master Communicator, by Jodie Peeler, Dave Garroway Jr, and Brandon Hollingsworth. We're very pleased to have helped with the research for this book!
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TV Guide -  August 10 - 16, 1963
William Lawrence Francis Cullen (February 18, 1920 – July 7, 1990) was an American radio and television personality whose career spanned five decades. His biggest claim to fame was as a game show host; over the course of his career, he hosted 23 shows, and earned the nickname “Dean of Game Show Hosts”. Aside from his hosting duties, he appeared as a panelist/celebrity guest on many other game shows, including regular appearances on I’ve Got a Secret and To Tell the Truth. (Wikipedia)
Betsy Palmer (born Patricia Betsy Hrunek November 1, 1926 – May 29, 2015)  Actress known as a regular supporting movie and Broadway actress and television guest star, as a panelist on the game show I’ve Got a Secret.  (Wikipedia)
Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) Politician, model and television actress who became famous in 1945 as the first Jewish Miss America. Myerson is the only Jewish woman to win the title.
A few years after hearing her speak at an ADL function, television producer Walt Framer hired Myerson for the 1950s game show The Big Payoff. She was the “Lady in Mink” modeling the grand prize mink coat, and introducing guests and prizes, throughout the 1951 to 1959 network run of the program. Recognized for her wit and hard work, as well as her beauty, in 1954 Myerson was a panelist on the game show The Name’s the Same and from 1958 through 1967 a panelist on I’ve Got a Secret. She regularly substituted for Dave Garroway on the Today Show. She was also a host of the television broadcast of the Miss America pageant from 1954 to 1968  (Wikipedia)
Henry Morgan (born Henry Lerner Van Ost Jr.; March 31, 1915 – May 19, 1994) American humorist. He first became familiar to radio audiences in the 1930s and 1940s as a barbed but often self-deprecating satirist; in the 1950s and later, he was a regular and cantankerous panelist on the game show I’ve Got a Secret as well as other game and talk shows. Morgan was a second cousin of Broadway lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner.   (Wikipedia)
Garry Moore (1916 - 1993) Entertainer, game show host and comedian best known for his work in TV.
He hosted The Garry Moore Show, and the game shows I’ve Got a Secret and To Tell the Truth.  His Tuesday night variety show provided a break into show business for many performers, including Alan King, Jonathan Winters, Carol Burnett, and Dorothy Loudon.  (Wikipedia)
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Events 1.14
1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. 1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1639 – The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut. 1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marathas. 1784 – American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain. 1814 – Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of Norway to Charles XIII of Sweden in return for Pomerania. 1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt made by Felice Orsini and his accomplices in Paris. 1899 – RMS Oceanic (1899) is launched. She is the largest ship afloat since Brunell's SS Great Eastern. 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's Tosca opens in Rome. 1907 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people. 1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. 1939 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. 1943 – World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign. 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war. 1951 – National Airlines Flight 83 crashes during landing at Philadelphia International Airport, killing seven passengers and crew. 1952 – NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway. 1953 – Josip Broz Tito is elected the first President of Yugoslavia. 1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation. 1957 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. 1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority authorized by the 1959 Reserve Bank Act, is established. 1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. 1969 – USS Enterprise fire: An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 people. 1972 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513. 1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history. 1993 – In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved. 2004 – The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years. 2010 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda. 2011 – President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia seeks refuge in Saudi Arabia after a series of demonstrations against his regime, considered to be the birth of the Arab Spring. 2019 – A Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crashes at Fath Air Base near Karaj in Alborz Province, Iran, killing 15 people.
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