This Was His Life. Ralph Edwards, one of the pioneers of early television and host of one of the most famous television shows of the 1950s, This Is Your Life, died today of heart failure at the age of 92.

He produced, created, and hosted many shows, and Edwards continued to work into his nineties.

Another famous show he created was Truth or Consequences, which later launched the career of Bob Barker.

This paragraph answers a question I have had about this town:

The program, which became radio's No. 1 audience participation show, aired for 38 consecutive years on radio and television. It was so popular that residents of Hot Springs, N.M., voted in 1950 to rename their small resort town after the show to cash in on the free publicity the unique name would bring it.

Apparently he was a nice guy who nobody had a negative word to say about him.

Until, of course, some creep decides to make up some "tell-all" book. (PRK)
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In other obituaries, prominent trainer Johnny Campo, best known for training Pleasant Colony to win the 1981 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, died November 14 at the age of 67.

Campo retired a number of years ago and had been in declining health.

In addition, he trained Talking Picture, Cherokee Colony, Protagonist, and Jim French, among many other horses.
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Dorothy W. Raphaelson, 100, one of the last surviving Ziegfeld Girls.

She married Samson Raphaelson, the man who wrote the play that became The Jazz Singer for George Jessel, who starred in it. Warner Brothers later turned the play into the 1927 film which is remembered as the first "talking picture" (I put that in quotes because the film was basically a silent film with a musical soundtrack) and starred Al Jolson, who was said to have double-crossed his friend Jessel to get the part.
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