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BROADCAST JOURNALIST IS 80 TODAY

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Samuel Andrew "Sam" Donaldson, Jr.

Reporter and news anchor Sam Donaldson has been with ABC News
from 1967 to the present. He is best known as the network’s White
House Correspondent (1977–89 and 1998–99). He also served as 
panelist and later co-anchor of the network’s Sunday news Program
"This Week". From 1956 to 1959, Donaldson served on active duty
as an artillery officer in the United States Army, attaining the rank
of Captain (USAR).

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LAST SHOW ON THIS DAY IN 1955

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Jim Ameche played Mountie Jim West on the ABC radio 
adventure show Silver Eagle from July 5, 1951 until the
last show aired on March 10, 1955.

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SITCOM AIRED ON THIS DAY IN 1945

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Willard Waterman


Those Websters
was a radio situation comedy series on CBS starring 
Willard Waterman and Constance Crowder as George and Jane Webster.

The program began in New York and then moved to Chicago for a short
time before finishing its run from Hollywood.

Those Websters was heard Friday evenings from March 9, 1945 until the
series moved to Mutual on March 3, 1946 when it aired Sunday night until
August 22, 1948.

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TV WEATHERMAN IS 80 TODAY

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Willard as Ronald McDonald

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Willard Herman Scott, Jr.

Scott is best known for his TV work as the weatherman on The Today Show 
on NBC. He went into semi-retirement in 1996 and was succeeded by Al
Roker. He continues to appear twice a week on the long-running morning
show to wish centenarians a happy birthday. He is also the commercial
voice of Smucker’s  jellies which sponsors the birthday tributes on the
Today Show. A younger Willard Scott is also remembered as being 
the creator and original portrayer of Ronald McDonald.

 

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AN ELECTRONIC STORES BEGINNING

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The first custom concept store opened in the company’s hometown
of  Fort Worth, Texas. 

Radio Shack Corporation (formerly Tandy Corporation) is a franchise of
electronics retail stores in the United States, as well as parts of Europe,
South America and Africa. The company was started as Radio Shack in
1921 by two brothers,Theodore and Milton Deutschmann, who wanted
to provide equipment for the fans of amateur, or ham, radio. 

Radio Shack was purchased by the Tandy Corporation in 1962. It was
originally a leather goods corporation, and renamed Tandy Radio Shack
& Leather
. Tandy eventually divested itself of its non-electronic product
lines.

The company issued its first catalog in 1939. as it entered the high-fidelity
music market. In 1954, Radio Shack began selling its own private-label
products under the brand name Realist, but was subsequently sued and
consequently changed the brand name to Realistic.

 


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Radio Shack was created in Boston by brothers, Theodore and
Milton Deutschmann who had emigrated from London.


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