Year after year, Susan Scribner, a Long Beach, Calif., fund-raising consultant, sits through all 21 hours of actor Jerry Lewis’s annual telethon to raise money to fight muscular dystrophy — even ...
Jerry Lewis’s annual Labor Day telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association raised more money than ever this year, $63.7-million, according to the charity. But the actor and the event continue to ...
WGN Radio’s Dave Plier and Dave Schwan talk about the history of the American labor movement as well as the legacy of comedian Jerry Lewis and what was an annual tradition on Labor Day weekend, the ...
Television has few traditions as strongly ingrained as the annual Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon. Adults who used to watch as kids now introduce their own children to the 21 1/2-hour, star-studded ...
Eastern Iowans dug into their pockets this weekend to give $356,703 locally in pledges to the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon held at the CBS 2 studio. The money benefits the Muscular Dystrophy ...
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