Archives for February 3, 2020

Joe Louis is the guest on This Is Your Life, hosted by Ralph Edwards and originally telecast by NBC in 1961:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.”

Samuel Johnson, The Idler (May 26, 1759)