Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke is 89 today
Dick Van Dyke served as a radio announcer in the U.S.
Army Air Corps during World War II and later transferred
to the Special Services as an entertainer.
Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke is 89 today
Dick Van Dyke served as a radio announcer in the U.S.
Army Air Corps during World War II and later transferred
to the Special Services as an entertainer.
Chester Robert "Chet" Huntley (December 10, 1911 – March 20, 1974)
Chet Huntley was a television newscaster, best known for co-anchoring NBC’s
evening news, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, for 14 years beginning in 1956.
He attended three different colleges: Montana State University, Cornish College
of the Arts, and the University of Washington. Early in his career, Chet worked
for Seattle, Washington’s AM radio station KIRO and later went to 620 AM KGW
radio in Portland, Oregon where he was a writer, newscaster and announcer
from 1936 to 1937.
Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale
The well known television game show host of Tic Tac Dough (NBC/CBS)
was born in Jackson, Tennessee, and started his career as a disc jockey
at age 17 at WPLI in Jackson, earning $25 a week.
Wink Martindale in his debut role on TV was for a
children’s sci-fi program called “Mars Patrol”.