Penny Singleton as Blondie with co-star Arthur Lake playing Dagwood

Blondie is a radio situation comedy adapted from the long-run Blondie comic
strip by Chic Young. The radio program was originally a summer replacement
for The Eddie Cantor Show. However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the
sponsor, R.J. Reynolds’s Camel Cigarettes chose to keep Blondie on the air
from 1939 to 1950 on several networks. 

‘Fruit Garden and Home’ was the first issue of what would later become
‘Better Homes and Gardens’. The publisher, E.T. Meredith, had recently
retired as Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson.

Edwin Thomas Meredith

Ken Curtis (Curtis Wain Gates) (July 2, 1916 – April 28, 1991)

Curtis was an singer and actor best known as the iconic character
Festus Haggen on the long-running CBS television western series
Gunsmoke (1955-1975). He first appeared on the show in 1962
and was featured full-time from 1964 until 1975.

Curtis was born in Lamar, Prowers County Colorado and was a
singer before moving into acting and combined both careers once
he entered films, performing with the popular Sons of the Pioneers
from 1949 to 1953 as well as singing with the Tommy Dorsey band
replacing Frank Sinatra as vocalist. 

1952 Woodward High School yearbook

Jamie as Maxwell Q. Klinger

Jamie Farr (Jameel Joseph Farah)

Farr played the role of cross-dressing Corporal Klinger on CBS-TV’s
M*A*S*H (1972-1983). He was born in Toledo, Ohio where his first role
won him two dollars in a acting contest at age 11. Farr’s first film roles
were in 1955 in Blackboard Jungle (billed as Jameel Farah) and as a
fruit vendor in Kismet (un-credited). After this, he joined the United
States Army for two years, with service in Japan and Korea

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The postmaster of the United States Postal Service introduced the five-digit ZIP
code. The term is an acronym for Zoning Improvement Plan. Robert Moon, an
employee of the post office, is considered to be the father of the ZIP code. He
submitted his proposal in 1944 for the initial three-digit code while working as
a postal inspector.