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CLINT WALKER IS 87 TODAY

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Clint Walker (Norman Eugene Walker)

Walker is a retired actor best known for his cowboy role as Cheyenne
Bodie in the ABC television western series, Cheyenne (1955-1963). 

He worked as a doorman and club bouncer before finding success in
Hollywood.
 

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TODAY’S CLASSIC TV MOM

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June Lockhart will be 89, June 25

June Lockhart is remembered as the mother in two TV series. She played
Ruth Martin, the mother of Timmy (played by Jon Provost) in the 1954 CBS
series, Lassie (a role that she played from 1958–64). She was also Maureen 
Robinson on the classic CBS sci-fi series Lost in Space from 1965-1968.

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WELL ‘’SEASONED’’ SINGER IS 80 TODAY!

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Frankie Valli (Francesco Stephen Castelluccio)

Front man Frankie Valli was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
with the Four Seasons in 1990. He has had twenty-nine top forty hits with 
his distinctive falsetto voice that include “Sherry” (1962) “Big Girls Don’t Cry”
(1962) “Walk Like A Man” (1963) and “Rag Doll (1974). Valli once worked as
a barber until his singing career was enough to support him.


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KID’S SHOW HOST BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1907

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       Pinky Lee (Pincus Leff)
(May 2, 1907 – April 3, 1993)

Lee was burlesque comic and host of a Emmy-nominated afternoon
children’s television program The Pinky Lee Show in the early 1950s
on NBC. It was followed each day by the Howdy Doody Show.

In later years, Lee worked as a teacher and appeared in local area 
musical theater productions.



Pinky’s last show from 1956

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ROCK MUSICIAN IS 72 TODAY

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Tork at age 14

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Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson)   


Tork is best known as the keyboardist and bass guitarist of The Monkees
and at one time played banjo on a George Harrison album.

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