Tag: Lucy the Crusader
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BOB HASTINGS
April 18, 1925 Robert Francis Hastings was born in Brooklyn, New York. He started out as a boy singer on “National Barn Dance”, “Doug Gray’s Singing Gang” and “Coast to Coast on a Bus”. He also portrayed Jerry on the radio program “The Sea Hound.” Hastings served during World War II in the United States Army Air…
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RIP Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Philip Roth. His 1969 novel PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT was so popular that a reference to it made its way into “Lucy the Crusader” (HL S3;E5) in October 1970. At a meeting of neighborhood consumer advocates, Lucy Carter asks if anyone has any other complaints, and calls upon Mrs. Pornoy (Kathleen Hughes), who talks…