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Pauline Phillips. Pauline Esther Phillips (born Friedman; July 4, 1918 – January 16, 2013), also known as Abigail Van Buren, was an American advice columnist and radio show host who began the well-known "Dear Abby" newspaper column in 1956. It became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, syndicated in 1,400 newspapers with ...
Dear Abby. Dear Abby star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame memorializing the Dear Abby radio show. Dear Abby is an American advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name " Abigail Van Buren " and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name.
On Valentine's Day in 2001, the Dear Abby radio show was honored with the 2,172nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Around 60 family members and friends took part in the 30-minute ceremony. Jeanne Phillips paid the $15,000 sponsorship fee for the star and its maintenance to honor her mother. The Dear Abby radio show lasted for 12 years ...
Billed as "Dear Abby for the Hip-Hop Generation," the original show was a topic-driven effort that featured celebrities as well as everyday guests. ... a CNBC show, and various TV, radio, and ...
"Somebody is always trying to put something in life to make it just that much harder for us girls," Marion Clyde McCarroll said in the 1950s.
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Eppie Lederer. Esther Pauline " Eppie " Lederer (née Friedman; July 4, 1918 – June 22, 2002), better known by the pen name Ann Landers, was an American advice columnist and eventually a nationwide media celebrity. She began writing the "Ask Ann Landers" column in 1955 and continued for 47 years, by which time its readership was 90 million ...
NBC Talknet was a nighttime programming block on the NBC Radio Network from the 1980s to the 1990s. It comprised several advice-oriented call-in talk shows, the most notable personalities being Bruce Williams and Sally Jessy Raphael. At a time when talk radio was a mostly local format, Talknet, among similar services, brought the format to a ...