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March 9, 1918 Mickey Spillane was born

On this day in 1918, Mickey Spillane was born.

March 8, 1910 Clair Trevor was born

On this day in 1910, Clair Trevor was born.

March 6, 1916 Virginia Gregg was born

On this day in 1916, Virginia Gregg was born.

March 4, 1951: The U.S. Steel Hour' features Sir John Gielud

  March 4, 1951: NBC program  ' The U.S. Steel Hour '  featured Sir John Gielgud in the well-known role of Hamlet . Sponsored by the Unites States Steel Corporation, ' The U.S. Steel Hour ' became a popular show for a decade. The show was an anthology series which continued on to television. Beginning in 1954, the series won several awards and Emmy nominations.

March 8: Happy Birthday Claire Trevor

Back on March 8, 1910, the beautiful "Queen of Film Noir" Claire Trevor was born. Playing roles as a husky-voiced blonde and seemed to fill the role of gun-moll, seductress or tough minded career woman with aplomb.

March 1, 1932: The broadcast of Charles and Anne Linbergh's son on CBS and NBC

March 1, 1932: Start of the greatest effort of on-the-spot news coverage of radio involving the kidnapping of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's baby. CBS and NBC rushed to Hopewell, NJJ to cover the incident. On March 1, 1932,around 8:00 and 10:00 o'clock, son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from his nursery room. The kidnappers left a small note asked for ransom for the child. By the next morning, news about the kidnapping had been broadcast to the world and reporters, cameramen, curious onlookers, and souvenir hunters swarmed over the Lindbergh estate. Unfortunately, the present of news hunter made some of evidence that has not yet retrieved by police was lost in the stampede. Charles Lindbergh wanted the police to allow him to negotiate without interference with the kidnappers and he told that to Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the New Jersey State Police. Lindbergh used NBC to radio broadcast his message to the kidnapper or kidnappers. He promis

February 28, 1928 Louise Erickson was born

On this day in 1928, Louise Erickson was born.