My Third Parent

broadcastarchive-umd:

Cover of TV Forecast, January 26, 1952, featuring the floating heads of Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Perry Como, Marion Marlowe, Kate Smith and Clifton Utley – “six outstanding winners in the Awards Poll contest.”

As for “Mike and Buff,” they were Buff Cobb and then-husband Mike Wallace, co-hosts of one of television’s first talk shows.

Library of American Broadcasting Collection.

Special Collections in Mass Media and Culture @UMD.