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Remembering Cornell Woolrich who passed away 55 years ago today (in 1968) at the age of 64. He would be 119 years old if alive today!

90 Years Ago today in Radio History: Tom Mix debuted on the radio today in 1933. Tom Mix was a real cowboy who was born in Pennsylvania in 1880. He joined the Army during the Spanish-American War in 1898 but was never deployed overseas. Mix still rode with a Rough Riders detachment during Teddy Roosevelt's Inaugural Parade. He settled in Oklahoma and worked at the Miller Bros 101 Ranch. Around 1909, Mix moved to Los Angeles where Selig Polyscope made him one of Hollywood's first Cowboy Stars. Tom Mix was the original Movie Cowboy, appearing in almost 300 silent films (and 9 talkies). He helped establish the Western genre and the trope of the Good Guy in the White Hat saving the day and riding off into the sunset. Mix was a pallbearer at Wyatt Earp's funeral and helped John Wayne get started in the film industry. The Ralston-Purina Milling Company Wanted to break into the breakfast cereal market and licensed tom Mix's name for Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters kid's show which debuted on September 25, 1933, airing through the early Fifties. The old cowboy did not appear on the program, his rough Western life left his voice unsuitable for the Radio. Tom Mix never personally appeared on the program and passed away after an automobile accident on October 12, 1940.

Happy Birthday, William Faulkner! Today would be William Faulkner's 126th Birthday.