During World War II, she joined the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, serving in Washington, D.C., Ceylon, and China.
Julia Child was born Julia Carolyn McWilliams on 8-15-1912 in Pasadena, California, into a comfortable, socially prominent family that valued education and culture. Her father, John McWilliams Jr., was a Princeton-educated banker and land manager, and her mother, Julia Carolyn Weston, came from a Massachusetts paper company fortune. Tall, athletic, and spirited, Julia attended Smith College, graduating in 1934 with a degree in history.
Dubbed “the king of daytime talk,” Donahue was the first to incorporate audience participation in a talk show, typically during a full hour with a single guest.
Phil Donahue was born on December 21, 1935, in Cleveland, Ohio. He was raised in a working-class Irish Catholic family and attended Our Lady of Angels elementary school in Cleveland. Donahue later attended St. Edward High School, a Catholic boys’ high school in Lakewood, Ohio. After high school,
My third inductee into my SitCom Hall of Fame is M*A*S*H.
“M*A*S*H” is an American war comedy-drama television series that aired on CBS from September 17, 1972, to February 28, 1983. The show was based on Richard Hooker’s novel “MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors” and the 1970 film adaptation directed by Robert Altman. Created by Larry Gelbart and developed by Gene Reynolds, the series followed the lives of the staff at the fictional 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War.
