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TV SHOW HOSTESS VANNA WHITE IS 54 TODAY

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Vanna White has been the hostess and puzzle-board turner of televisions 
Wheel of Fortune (NBC/CBS) since 1982.

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GAME SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DATE IN 1950

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What’s My Line? a panel game show which originally ran on the CBS Television
Network from 1950 until it’s cancellation in 1967. It is the longest-running game
show in the history of U.S. prime time television. It was hosted by John Charles
Daly with panelists Dorothy Kilgallen. Arlene Francis, and Bennett Cerf. 

The show won three Emmy Awards for “Best Quiz or Audience Participation Show”
in 1952, 1953 and a Golden Globe for Best TV show in 1962. After it was 
cancelled by CBS in 1967, it returned in syndication as a daily production
returned in syndication as a daily production which ran from 1968 until 1975.

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GARRY MOORE WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1915

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Garry Moore was a game show host and comedian best known for his
work in television.  Moore entered show business as a radio personality
in the 1940s and was a television host on several game and variety show  
programs during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s such as The Garry Moore
Show
on CBS-TV from 1959 to 1967 and I’ve got a secret from 1952 to
1967 on CBS. Moore was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1976 and
retired from television. He died on November 28, 1993.

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[From 1961]

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AD FOR RIFLE GALLERY GAME FROM 1969

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BOB EUBANKS IS 73 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Radio and television personality Bob Eubanks is the host of the show
The Newlywed Game on ABC-TV and has been on and off since 1966.

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Eubanks was one of California’s most popular DJ’s on KRLA in
Pasadena during the 1960’s.

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