With Hugh Marlowe (below) in the title role, Ellery Queen was introduced in
The Adventures of Ellery Queen on CBS Radio on June 18, 1939. Between
1939-1948, the show was broadcast alternately on CBS, NBC and ABC. The
premise was that a mystery would be dramatized but then interrupted when a
panel of celebrities would attempt to solve the mystery. The Gulf Oil Company
was the first commercial sponsor of the show.

Hugh Marlowe with Marian Shockley who played the
character Nikki Porter.

Bromo-Seltzer sponsored the first NBC run
of The Adventures of Ellery Queen

RARE  "ELLERY QUEEN CLUB MEMBER" BUTTON.

First issue of Yank 

Yank, the Army Weekly was a magazine published by the U.S. military during 
World War ll. The idea for the magazine came from Egbert White, who worked
on the Star sand Stripes during World War l. He proposed the idea to the Army
in 1942, and accepted a commission as Lieutenant Colonel. He was the overall commander, Major Franklin S. Forsberg was the business manager and Major
Hartzell Spence was the first editor of the magazine. The publication was written
by enlisted men only and was made available to the soldiers, sailors, and airmen
serving overseas. It was published at facilities around the world for a total of 21
editions in 17  countries. Yank was the most widely read magazine in the history
of the U.S. Military, achieving a worldwide circulation of more than 2.6 million. It
featured the G.I. Joe cartoons by Dave Breger and the Sad Sack cartoons by
Sgt. George Baker. The paper’s motto was “written by the men…for the men
in the service”

Marie McDonald was the Yank Pin-up Girl for Aug 25, 1944.

Ralph Rexford Bellamy was a actor with a radio, stage, film and TV career that 
spanned sixty-two years. He appeared on Broadway in one of his most famous 
roles, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt (below) in Sunrise at Campobello. In 1984, 
he was presented with a Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild, 
and in 1987 received an Honorary Academy Award "for his unique artistry and 
his distinguished service to the profession of acting". He gave his final acting 
performance in Pretty Woman (1990).

Ralph Bellamy as FDR

Bellamy in Rosemary’s Baby, 1968

Watergate is a complex (above) in Washington, D.C.that was the location of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972. Five men were arrested for burglarizing the office of the committee. An investigation discovered that the men
had connections to the Committee to Re-elect President Nixon.The event was
the beginning of the Watergate affair. Additionally, various other crimes were
exposed, such as political espionage and corruption. In the end, president Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974 and Gerald Ford became the next president.The affair 
also resulted in the indictment trial, conviction and incarceration of several Nixon administration officials.