Ross Simpson

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.

Fort Laramie was a radio Western series that aired Sunday afternoons at 5:30pm
(ET) on CBS from January 22 to October 28, 1956. The 41 episodes starred
Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, captain of the cavalry. One year later, Burr
became a television star as Perry Mason.

The Fat Man, a popular radio show during the 1940s and early 1950s
was a detective drama based on characters by Dashiell Hammett. It
starred J. Scott Smart in the title role, as a detective who started out
anonymous but rapidly acquired the name ‘Brad Runyon’.

Broadcast from the studios of WJZ in Newark, New Jersey, the series
premiered on the ABC Radio Network and aired until 1951.The success
of the radio series led to a movie, The Fat Man (1951).

J. Scott Smart

Wolfman Jack (Robert Weston Smith (January 21, 1938 – July 1, 1995)

After selling encyclopedias door-to-door, he began attending the National
Academy of Broadcasting in Washington, D.C., where he graduated in 1960.

Tim Maguire

George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum) (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996)