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Recalling the simpler innocence of 'Fibber McGee & Molly'


By Bill Knight
As April ends, poet T.S. Eliot’s line “April is the cruelest month” is recalled – along with its actual meaning – and an Illinois couple who succeeded in show business despite April’s bad tidings – and good.
First, Eliot’s opening line from “The Waste Land” indicates how people confined in a mythical country devastated by a pandemic suffer profound disappointment at the arrival of the season of renewal and growth – new life they’re unable to enjoy. Eliot wrote his masterpiece during his recovery from the ‘Spanish flu,” which killed 100 million people.
Next, legendary entertainers Jim and Marian Jordan – most famous as “Fibber McGee and Molly” – experienced both joy and loss in April. Marian was born April 15, 1898; their most famous show premiered in April of 1935; and they both died in April: Marian in 1961 and Jim 27 years later. ....

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Major TV Debuts From the Year You Were Born


Major TV Debuts From the Year You Were Born
By
Abby Monteil, Stacker News
On 1/2/21 at 12:00 PM EST
As the landscape of TV continues to shift, it s always a good time to pause and look at the medium s history. Although the latest buzzy Netflix show dominating everyday conversations is normal, television is one of the youngest art forms around. The first American TV station began broadcasting in 1928, but television didn t really start growing into the influential, widespread phenomenon that it is now until the 1950s.
Since there were initially only three major TV networks ABC, CBS, and NBC popular television was limited to a strict number of channels and studios for decades. The advent of cable television and streaming services has allowed more and more diverse forms of TV storytelling to be made. The most popular show that aired in 2012 when an 8-year-old was born looks vastly different than the most popular show that aired in 1965 when a 55-year-old was bo ....

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