Word: kyser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Likely Successor. Douglas, who was born Michael Delaney Dowd Jr. in Chicago, prepped as a vocalist on TV's Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge in 1950, and host of an afternoon radio show called Hi, Ladies! In 1961, when the call came to take charge of a new daytime talk show in Cleveland, he was singing in a Los Angeles saloon by night and studying to be a real estate agent...
Died. Edgar Clyde ("Skinnay") Ennis Jr., 55, popular bandleader of the jive-and-jump era, a product of Hal Kemp's offbeat collegiate jazz band at the University of North Carolina in the 1920s (other students: Kay Kyser, John Scott Trotter), who became the big noise nationwide on Bob Hope's radio shows of the 1940s; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Beverly Hills...