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Bud Collins was born on 17 June 1929 in Lima, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Psych (2006), Class of... (2002) and The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame... (2005). He was married to Anita Ruthling Klaussen, Mary Lou Barnum and Palmer Collins. He died on 4 March 2016 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Saul Bellow was born on 10 July 1915 in Lachine, Québec, Canada [now Lachine, Montréal, Québec, Canada]. He was a writer and actor, known for Zelig (1983), Henderson the Rain King and Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965). He was married to Janis Bellow, Alexandra Ionesco Tuleca, Susan Glassman, Alexandra Tschacbasov and Anita Goshkin. He died on 5 April 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Olive Higgins Prouty was born on 10 January 1882 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Olive Higgins was a writer, known for Now, Voyager (1942), Stella Dallas (1937) and Stella Dallas (1925). Olive Higgins was married to Lewis I. Prouty. Olive Higgins died on 24 March 1974 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Lew Lehr performed in vaudeville and on the musical stage until about 1930, when he began narrating and writing shorts for educational and other series entries such as "Tintypes", "Adventures of a Newsreel Cameraman", "Magic Carpet" series and "Lew Lehr's Unnatural History" series. He was also the editor, writer and commentator for Fox Movietone News, beginning in 1932, for the sequences within their newsreels called "The Dribble-Puss Parade". Whatever the subject, Lew Lehr's character had a sardonic and slightly-sour outlook on it, especially when it involved footage from old Edison films that Fox Movietone News would insert about once a month to lighten up their Newsreels. In 1946, he wrote, edited and starred in a stand-alone series of "Drizzle Puss Parade(s)", distributed by 20th Century-Fox, that usually found him casting a jaded eye on various activities he found in his travels around the United States. The man's voice and/or face was heard and/or seen in at least 300 shorts or newsreels for over 25 years beginning in 1932. Writer, editor, performer.

Jess Dandy was born on 9 November 1871 in Rochester, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914), The New Janitor (1914) and Killing Horace (1914). He died on 15 April 1923 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Mark Lapore was born in 1952 in Tacoma, Washington, USA. Mark was a director and producer, known for The Sleepers (1989), A Depression in the Bay of Bengal (1996) and The Five Bad Elements (1997). Mark was married to Laura McPhee. Mark died on 11 September 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Mary Alice Scully was born on 26 October 1902 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. She was a writer, known for Whispering Canyon (1926), One Way Street (1925) and The Re-Creation of Brian Kent (1925). She was married to Pierre Gendron. She died on 15 March 1920 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

American short-story writer and novelist Ben Ames Williams was born in Macon, Mississippi, in 1889. Shortly afterwards his father, a newspaperman, bought the "Jackson Standard Journal" in Jackson, Ohio, and the family moved there. Williams grew up in the newspaper business, and while in high school he worked at the paper, starting at the bottom and eventually working his way up to writing and editing.

He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1910 and was offered a job teaching at a boys school in Connecticut, but instead took a position as a reporter for the "Boston American" newspaper. His first love was writing fiction, however, and each day after work he would go home and work on his writing. In 1915 he had his first story published, "Deep Stuff", in a publication called "The Popular Magazine". In 1917 he had a story, "The Mate of the Susie Oakes", published in "The Saturday Evening Post" magazine, a publication that over the next quarter-century would publish almost 200 of his stories. Many of them--more than 125--were set in the fictional town of Fraternity, Maine (be owned a summer home in rural Maine and loved the area) and they were wildly popular with readers.

Williams is probably best known for the film adaptations of his novels, such as Leave Her to Heaven (1945) and All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953).

He died of a heart attack in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1953.

Lyman H. Howe was born on 9 June 1856 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer, known for A Flying Trip Through the Hawaiian Islands, No. 2 (1917), A Flying Trip Through the Hawaiian Islands, No. 1 (1917) and Logging in Italy (1918). He died on 30 January 1923 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

George L. Cobb was born on 31 August 1886 in Mexico, New York, USA. George L. died on 25 December 1942 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Hal Simms was born on 10 June 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Edge of Night (1956), As the World Turns (1956) and The Jack Paar Show (1953). He died on 2 July 2002 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Norman Weissman was born on 12 April 1925 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Norman was a writer and director, known for The School of the Ozarks (1953), It Happened in Holland (1970) and An Adventure in Friendship (1949). Norman was married to Eveline. Norman died on 27 May 2021 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Talented vocalist of early television, and recordings (Kay Kyser Orchestra). Born in Indianapolis, Bennett grew up in New York City and attended Syracuse University. Following college, she joined the cast of a Broadway revue, "Small Wonder," and then began her television career. After moving with her husband to Massachusetts in the 1950s, she became a Boston television personality. In the 1960s she began a new career as a voice-over performer; her work in voice-overs continued until 2000. Survivors include her husband (Waldo Fielding) of 52 years and two sons.

Benno Weiser Varon was born on 4 October 1913 in Czernowitz, Ukraine, Austria-Hungary. He was married to Miriam Laserson. He died on 5 October 2010 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Margot Stern Strom was born on 10 November 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Margot is known for My So-Called Enemy (2010) and Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005). Margot was married to Terry Strom. Margot died on 28 March 2023 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Larry Lucchino was born on 6 September 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Stacey Johnson. He died on 2 April 2024 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Jack Kirraine was born on 20 August 1928 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Patricia. He died on 26 September 2016 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Edward Fredkin was born on 2 October 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was married to Dorothy and Joycelin. He died on 13 June 2023 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Miriam Laserson was born on 23 May 1919 in Moscow, RSFSR [now Russia]. She was an actress and writer, known for CBS Television Workshop (1952), CBS Repertoire Workshop (1960) and My Father's House (1947). She was married to Benno Weiser Varon. She died on 2 July 2021 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Boris Goldovsky was born on 7 June 1908 in Moscow, Russia. He was a writer, known for Startime (1959), YA - Sergey Obraztsov (2024) and Camera Three (1954). He was married to Margaret Goldovsky. He died on 15 February 2001 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

David Silber was born on 21 February 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre (1979). He died on 29 December 1994 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Clarita Heath Reiter was born on 27 August 1916 in Pasadena, California, USA. Clarita Heath was married to William Reiter and Alex Bright. Clarita Heath died on 13 October 2003 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

David Kleiler was born on 15 January 1940 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. He was a producer, known for Pony Trouble (2005), Night Deposit (2000) and Santa Mania (2004). He died on 15 April 2019 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

June Carter was born on 23 November 1941 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. She was an actress, known for The Edge of Night (1956), The Secret Storm (1954) and Camera Three (1954). She died on 22 January 2021 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA.

Charles Lunsford Neville Buck was born on April 15, 1879 in Midway, Woodford County, Kentucky to the Honorable Charles William Buck and Elizabeth Crow Bullitt.

Charles studied at the Cincinnati Academy of Art around 1898 to 1899. It is possible he graduated from the art academy in 1899, although I can't confirm this. After he left the art academy, he then became a cartoonist on the staff of the Louisville, Kentucky newspaper 'The Evening Post' from 1899 to 1900. Around 1900, Charles moved over to the editorial staff of the Louisville Evening Post and Morning Herald. He worked as a reporter on the staff until around 1908.

While on staff at the newspaper, Mr. Buck studied at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky; where he acquired a law degree in 1902. Although he passed the bar in 1902, he never practiced law.

It was from 1908 on, that he tried his hand at writing short stories, and he culminated his writing ambitions with his first novel 'The Key to Yesterday' in 1910. From that point forward, his writing career soared with the author totaling 24 novels in the period spanning 1910 to about 1932. Nine of those novels were scripted and made into silent films. Unfortunately, only one of those silent films still exists today.

Charles married Margaret Field DeMotte in New York City on June 20, 1918. Margaret had a son John F. DeMotte, from her previous marriage to Lawrence DeMotte; but Margaret and Mr. Buck never had any children.

It is not known (to this author) what Charles did after 1932. His life is shrouded in relative obscurity from 1932 to his death in Brookline, Massachusetts in August of 1957.