Army Private Skelton in 1944.

Red Skelton’s radio career started on Rudy Vallee’s Royal
Gelatin Hour before joining NBC’s 1939 variety series
Avalon Time.

Broadcast from Chicago, Avalon Time featured country
singer Red Foley and Red Skelton’s wife and gag writer,
Edna Stillwell.

Red Skelton was drafted into the Army in March 1944, but
returned to NBC in December of 1945, with the same
sponsor and timeslot.

Richard Bernard Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997)

   
   
Portraits of Clowns by Red Skelton.

Frank P. Thomas

Donald J. Thomas

 
Burger Chef advertisement (1966).

    
    
    
    
   

Amanda Blake (Beverly Louise Neill)  
(February 20, 1929 – August 16, 1989)

Actress Amanda Blake is best known for the role of the
red-haired saloon proprietress "Miss Kitty Russell" on
the western CBS-TV series Gunsmoke (1955 – 1975)

Along with her fourth husband, Frank Gilbert, she ran
one of the first programs for breeding cheetahs in
captivity.         

In 1968, Blake was inducted into the Hall of Great
Western Performers at the National Cowboy and
Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. She
was the third performer inducted, after Tom Mix
and Gary Cooper, selected in 1958 and 1966,
respectively.

Blake died of liver failure brought on by viral hepatitis
at Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento, California

       
          

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 TV / Radio Repairman’s Case with Tubes

Alfred Carl Fuller began what was to become Fuller Brush Company in
a basement shop in Somerville, Massachusetts. In 1906, he moved to
Hartford, Connecticut and founded the company.    

The company began with door-to-door sales of brushes of various
sorts, including hairbrushes with a lifetime guarantee for which they
are famous.

In January of 2018, Galaxy Brush of Lakewood, New Jersey, purchased
the name of Fuller Brush, including all trademarks and patents. Galaxy
Brush, now doing business as Fuller Brush, also acquired the iconic
and very famous name brand and trademarks of Stanley Home
Products.

Alfred Carl Fuller
(January 13, 1885 – December 4, 1973)