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Oprah Gail Winfrey is 61 years old today

Oprah Winfrey was crowned Miss Black Tennessee while in college and began 
co-anchoring the evening news on a local radio station when she was nineteen.

Original run on CBS-TV: September 17, 1972 – February 28, 1983.

Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo in New York City)

Alda in his supporting role in the 2004 film The Aviator, for which he was 
was nominated for an Academy Award.

Donna Reed (born Donna Belle Mullenger in Denison, Iowa)
(January 27, 1921 – January 14, 1986)

Actress Donna Reed appeared in From Here to Eternity (1953) and
received widespread recognition for her role as Mary Bailey in Frank
Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946). She was also in The Donna 
Reed Show on ABC-TV (1958-1966).

Donna Reed and Jimmy Stewart, “It’s a Wonderful Life”

Linda Denise Blair, born in St. Louis, Missouri

Blair played the possessed Regan in The Exorcist (1973) for which she
was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe. In 1977,
she reprised her role in Exorcist II: The Heretic. Before fame, Linda Blair
became a child model at age six, and debuted in The Way We Live Now
(1970). 

Linda Blair in The Exorcist

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Dave Garroway and co-host J Fred Muggs.

Dave signing-off the first Today show in 1952.

David Cunningham "Dave" Garroway (1913 – 1982) was the founding 
host and anchor of NBC‘s Today from 1952 to 1961.