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January 29: Happy Birthday, W.C. Fields Raise your glass to toast a playboy, a consort of the likes of John Barrymore , Anthony Quinn, Cecil B. DeMille, and a hard drinker, comedy icon W.C. Fields . Fields is known for his acerbic, biting persona, which includes sexism and a general misanthropy. He was a vaudeville and Broadway one-man act, a silent film star, a talkie star, and a radio star. In 1937, Fields joined the cast of The Chase and Sanborn Hour , popularly remembered as "The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy " show. One of Fields' niches was trading insults with the dummy, Charlie. "Is that your nose or are you eating (insert a vegetable here)" was a standard line from Charlie to Fields, whose nose was not small. A shorter-lived stint for Fields was as emcee of Your Hit Parade , briefly known as Your Hit Parade With W.C. Fields . His particular brand of comedy kept him on the show for just a month. If you're looking for a quote for

  January 28, 1934: Owing to the tribute paid by Walter Winchell , Arthur Godfrey reached to the new heights of popularity and started getting numerous proposals from American producers. Earlier, he was an ordinary DJ., but later  developed himself into a radio announcer who used to sing and play ukulele was widely adored. Often known by his nickname The Rehead,  Arthur Godfrey  was loved by large American mass. In 1934  Arthur Godfrey   start his career as a freelance entertainer, but finally he has got his own program titled  Sundial that was aired  on of CBS-owned station WJSV (now WWWT) in Washington. Godfrey was the a disc jockey at the radio station. Every morning he was played records, delivered commercials (often with tongue in cheek; a classic example had him referring to Bayer Aspirin as "bare ass prin"), interviewed guests, and even read news reports during his three-hour shift. Godfrey loved to sing, and would frequently sing random verses during the "ta