TIM MAGUIRE

The comedy film It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was produced and directed
by Stanley Kramer and stars Spencer Tracy with an all-star cast that includes
Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Phil
Silvers and Jonathan Winters.

The film marked the first time that Kramer had directed a comedy, though he
had produced the comedy So This Is New York in 1948.

The Three Stooges make cameo appearance.

Terry and the Pirates was a radio serial adapted from the comic strip of the
same name created in 1934 by Milton Caniff. When the late afternoon series
began, it was heard three times a week, sponsored by  Dari-Rich, airing on
NBC Red Network from November 1, 1937 to June 1, 1938. It switched to
NBC Blue Network on September 26, 1938, continuing until March 22, 1939.

Absent from the airwaves for over two years, it returned shortly before the
Attack on Pearl Harbor, heard in the Midwestern United States on the
Chicago Tribune‘s WGN. That series, sponsored by Libby’s, aired five
days a week from October 16, 1941 to May 29, 1942. Ratings began to
drop in the post-WWII period until the final episode on June 30, 1948.

The central character, Terry Lee, was portrayed at various times by Jackie
Kelk, Cliff Carpenter, Owen Jordan, and Bill Fein. Terry’s buddy Pat Ryan
was played by Bud Collyer, Warner Anderson, Bob Griffin, and Larry
Alexander.

Jackie Daly Kelk
(August 6, 1923 – September 5, 2002)

Doonesbury began as a continuation of Bull Tales, which appeared in the Yale
University student newspaper, the Yale Daily News, from 1968 to 1970. It focused
on local campus events at Yale. It became a daily strip in twenty-eight newspapers
and was the first strip from Universal Press Syndicate. A Sunday strip began on
March 21, 1971. The strip became known for its social and political commentary
and is one of the longest running comic strips of all time.

Doonesbury is written and penciled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and lettered
by an assistant:Don Carlton then Todd Pound. Sunday strips are colored in by
George Corsillo.

Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau turned 68 in July.

Original air dates on NBC/CBS: October 14, 1934 to June 7, 1955.

Lux Radio Theatre was a long-run classic radio anthology series, broadcast
on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35); CBS Radio (1935-54), and NBC Radio
(1954–55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two
seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long programs were 
performed live before a studio audiences. The series became the most
popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20
years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most
of the 1950s. The primary sponsor of the show was Unilever through its
Lux Soap brand.

Lux Radio Theatre strove to feature as many of the original stars of the
original stage and film productions as possible. Cecil B. DeMille took over
as the host on June 1, 1936, continuing until January 22, 1945.