Wake Up, Crystal Lake - February 14 (Happy Birthday, Mrs. Brady)

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Today's Birthdays:

• 1972 Drew Bledsoe (quaterback)
• 1960 Meg Tilly (actress)
• 1946 Gregory Hines (actor, dancer)
• 1944 Carl Bernstein (Journalist)
• 1936 Andrew Prine (actor)
• 1934 Florence Henderson (opera singer, actress)
• 1932 Vic Morrow (actor)
• 1931 Phyllis McGuire (singer)
• 1921 Hugh Downs (co-anchor)
• 1913 Mel Allen (radio voice of NY Yankees)
• 1913 Jimmy Hoffa (Labor Leader)
• 1894 Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky) (violinist)