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IT WAS APRIL 9th ... when Bob Hope made his network TV debut, hosting the 90-minute "Star-Spangled Review" on NBC... When the Ed Sullivan Show's eclectic playbill on CBS-TV included Zippy the Chimp rollerskating and riding a bike, a comedy routine by vaudeville veterans Smith & Dale, ventriloquist Ricky Layne & Velvel, singers Julie Wilson, Oscar Brown Jr. and Jan Peerce... When The Rolling Stones made their first live TV appearance on ITV's Friday night music showcase "Ready Steady Go!"... and when CBS radio & MSNBC shock jock Don Imus was suspended (and later fired) after he called members of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos". ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

The journalist, who has worked in the industry for over fifty years — 46 of which with CBS — will say goodbye to the newsroom this summer.

ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir bested Nightly News by 84,000 viewers for the week ending April 3, according to Nielsen. World News pulled in 7.997 million viewers to Nightly's 7.913 million

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IT WAS APRIL 8th ... when the original radio voice of 'The Lone Ranger,' Canadian Earl Graser, was killed in an auto accident at age 32 ... When country singer Jimmy Dean began a morning show on CBS in what would be a futile effort to defeat NBC's Today Show ... When UK singer Petula Clark starred in her own NBC-TV prime time special, with guest Harry Belafonte (pictured) ... and when the last original episode of 'All in the Family' aired on CBS-TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

The New York Times dubbed him the “Che Guevara of advertising,” and years later, “Weird Al” Yankovic called him a major influence on his career.

This cannot be left to pass as just another news story …moving along the conveyor belt of public information, falling off at the end … and forgotten.