James Francis "Jimmy" Durante

                   (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980)

Durante was a singer, pianist, comedian, and actor. He was one
of America’s most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s
through the 1970s.

After the death of his wife, Jeanne Olsen, in 1943, he began the
ending of his radio program with the phrase, "Goodnight Mrs.
Calabash, wherever you are," as a tribute to her.

Jimmy Durante created the voice for Frosty the Snowman in the
1969 animated Christmas cartoon, Frosty the Snowman.

Carol Elaine Channing

Channing is a singer, actress, and comedian who has received
three Tony Awards (including one for lifetime achievement), a
Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. She is best remembered
for originating on Broadway the musical-comedy roles of widowed
matchmaker Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! (1964) and Lorelei Lee in
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949). Carol Channing was born in 
Seattle, Washington where her father ,George Channing, was
formerly the city editor of the Seattle Star newspaper.

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                                      Mike Gracia

W.C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield)

(January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946)

Fields was an early film comedian who obtained fame for his sardonic
wit in such films as The Bank Dick (1940) and My Little Chickadee with
Mae West (1940). Before fame he made a living as a pool player and
a juggler as a teen.

Fields (right) working with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on NBC radio

Indictment! was a courtroom drama on CBS radio from 1956 through
1959. The show was based on the case files of former New York City 
Assistant District Attorney Eleazer Lipsky, it "presented the step-by-step
and tedious checking that went into a case before an indictment could
be obtained."

Nat Polen (below) played the part of Edward McCormick, ADA.  Polen
was better known for his role as Dr. James Craig on ABC-TV’s "One
Life to Live."

Nat Polen

Vintage 1956 Philco Transitone clock AM radio