A Sweet Pause for the Mind Circus

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Today’s Blog Post
A Sweet Pause for the Mind Circus

So have you ever heard of George Raymond Wagner?
How about William Edward Maguiness?
Or - Elizabeth Mary Furness?
And William Lawrence Boyd and Robert Emil Schmidt?
Or better yet – and harder to guess Bob Keeshan, Robert "Nick" Nicholson and Lew Anderson?

If you are about 60 years old and a bit younger you will know these folks well… though you may not know them by name.

Let me give you some more hints before I tell you the whole story.

George Wagner was known by another name and he also had an attitude. This quote might give it away..
“George Raymond Wagner was born March 24, 1915 in Butte, Nebraska. For a time, he and his parents lived on a farm near the village of Phoenix in Holt County and probably in Seward County before they moved to Waterloo, Iowa and later Sioux City. When George was age seven, his family moved to Houston, Texas, where he associated with kids from a tough neighborhood.” End quote

William Edward Maguiness had a name change… quote
“In the late 1920s clarinetist he formed a dance band, under his real name. A nightclub owner didn't like how "Edward Maguiness" looked on his marquee, so he impulsively changed the bandleader's name to the shorter and snappier "Ted Mack." The name stuck.” End quote

Elizabeth Mary Furness was better known as Betty Furness and was specially known for the words, “You can be sure if it’s Westinghouse”, saying the words as she stood in front of a Refrigerator.

William Lawrence Boyd and Robert Emil Schmidt – kind of had something to do with cowboys – but were not really cowboys.

Bob Keeshan, Robert "Nick" Nicholson and Lew Anderson made a lot of noise but never said a word… but someone/everyone understood them.

I would like to ask you to not read any further if you can… then come back after one hour with/for the answers…

One hour Pause…. Here…

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George Raymond Wagner was known as Gorgeous George – one of the first Best Known Professional Wrestlers in the 1940s and 1950s.

William Edward Maguiness had his name changed to Ted Mack – the host of the “Original Amateur Hour” on Radio and TV. He had the dancing cigarette packages on stage.

Betty Furness was a model and movie star, and TV show host… who was best known of her work with Westinghouse and what she said about them. It was all about endorsements – way before Tiger Woods!

William Lawrence Boyd and Robert Emil Schmidt, the kind-of cowboys were Hopalong Cassidy (Boyd) and Buffalo Bob Smith (Howdy Doody Time).

Bob Keeshan, Robert "Nick" Nicholson and Lew Anderson – were the First, Second and Third Clarabell the Clown. Lew Anderson, as the final Clarabell was the only Clarabell that spoke – and it was only two words with a whisper… “Goodbye, kids” – on the very last show at the very end.

Clarabell made lots of noise with his crazy horn. I have one on my bicycle now that makes the same sound!

WOW! What a rush for me to read these over! I remember it all! Yikes!
It is funny… these days the old stuff keeps popping back into my thoughts. It is like a circus inside of my head at times. I never have to pay to get in… I just close my eyes and I am there. Talk about wild.

But the really funny thing is that you have just experienced it again. Your own circus has had a troop of actors and special people marching around in your mind as well.

Now all together kids…
Buffalo Bob: Say kids, what time is it?
Kids: It's Howdy Doody Time!


It's Howdy Doody Time.
It's Howdy Doody Time.
Bob Smith and Howdy Do
Say Howdy Do to you.
Let's give a rousing cheer,
Cause Howdy Doody's here,
It's time to start the show,
So kids let's go!
(The Tune is of the “Ta-ra-ra_Boom-de-ay”)

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wagner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Mack_%28radio-TV_host%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Furness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_%28actor%29  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bob_Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta-ra-ra_Boom-de-ay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarabell_the_Clown