Show host Hugh Downs

Art Linkletter

House Party premiered on CBS Radio January 15, 1945, and ran
weekdays at 4 p.m., three days a week, through January 10, 1947. On 
December 31, 1948 the show switched to ABC Radio where it ran till
December 30, 1949. It returned to CBS Radio days later, making it’s
longest continued run from January 2, 1950 to October 13, 1967. The
audience participation show was hosted Art Linkletter. The Sponsors
included General Electric, Pillsbury, and Lever Brothers.

To Tell The Truth, a Goodson-Todman Production, premiered on CBS in
prime time as Nothing But The Truth, but the program title was changed,
To Tell The Truth, during the following week and aired in various forms
until March 15, 2002. 

Bud Collyer was the show’s first host with early regular panelists that
included Johnny Carson, Polly Bergen, Jayne Meadows, Don Ameche,
Dick Van Dyke, and Ralph Bellamy. Collyer’s announcer on Beat the
Clock, Bern Bennett, was the original announcer for To Tell The
Truth in the 1950s.

Bern Bennett

Christmas Eve, 1957

Ted Mack

Geritol was introduced as an alcohol-based, iron and B vitamin tonic by
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in August 1950 and primarily marketed as such into
the 1970s. Since 1982, the Geritol product name has been owned by the
multinational pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline and is still around today .

The game show Twenty One, hosted by Jack Barry, aired on NBC from
1956 to 1958.

 
The Spruce Goose today at the Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon

   

Charles Lincoln Van Doren turned 86 in February.Today, both 
both Van Doren and his wife, Gerry, are adjunct professors 
English at the University of Connecticut, Torrington branch.