The legal drama series Perry Mason originally broadcast on CBS
television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966. The title
character, a criminal defense lawyer portrayed by Raymond Burr.

Many episodes are based on stories written by Erle Stanley
Gardner. Hollywood’s first weekly one-hour series filmed for
television, Perry Mason is one of TV’s longest-running and
most successful legal series.

In 1960, the series received the first Silver Gavel Award for
a television drama by the American Bar Association.

Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993)

SANDY KOZEL

Stephen Edwin King is 69 today.

Stephen King spent his childhood pouring over horror books,
comic books, and films, and he especially loved Tales from the
Crypt and Dracula. He graduated from the University of Maine
in 1970 with a Bachelor’s degree in English.

William James "Bill" Murray is 66 years old today.

In his youth, Bill Murry worked as a golf caddy to fund his
high school education. He began taking pre-med courses
at Regis University in Denver, Colorado but dropped out.

The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You’ll Never Get Rich, is a sitcom
which ran on CBS-TV from 1955 to 1959. A total of 143 episodes were
broadcast – all half-an-hour long except for a 1959 one-hour live special.

The series starred Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko of the
United States Army.

Phil Silvers (Philip Silver) (May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985)

Rewards catalog,1965

S&H Green Stamps were trading stamps popular in the from the
1930s until the late 1980s. They were distributed as part of a
rewards program operated by the Sperry & Hutchinson company
(S&H), founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron
Hutchinson.

Customers would receive stamps at the checkout counter of many
supermarkets, department stores, and gasoline stations among
other retailers, which could be redeemed for numerous products
in the catalog (above).

A Green Stamp Redemption Center.

ED DANAHUE

Sophia Loren  (Sofia Villani Scicolone) is 82 years young today.

Sophia Loren was a finalist for a beauty pageant in Naples at the age of
fourteen. She voiced the character Mama Topolino in the 2011 Disney
feature Cars 2 (below).