On a string of programs and under a series of names -- Mrs. Fix-It, Mrs. Consumer, Granny Franny -- Ms. Lee advised radio and television audiences on household and consumer issues from the late 1940s until well into the '90s.
This being the 100th anniversary of the action on what has come to be known as Bloomsday, June 16, 1904, a celebratory string of programs has been ongoing since January at the Greenwich Library.
3. Slacker Adds Programming: Slacker, a Pandora competitor, unveiled a string of programming deals this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
In the cool summer air outside a glass-walled villa, a woman with blue hair and a headscarf sits hunched over a computer, typing in a string of programming commands.
SeeSaw, the online TV service that will launch in the coming weeks, has unveiled a string of programming deals for shows including Footballers' Wives, The Apprentice, Skins, Neighbours and Kingdom.
But the rousing applause came for a string of programming code, written partly in the hot new Internet standard, XML -- for Extensible Markup Language -- that was projected onto giant blue screens and performed precisely as it was supposed to.
They can all store macros, strings of programming commands that with the touch of one button will turn on the right appliance and select the proper input to play a DVD or CD or watch TV.
They also argued that a string of federal programs to help reduce foreclosures had been ineffective because of resistance by lenders and investors who own pools of loans, all of whom stand to lose money when a mortgage is modified.
Unlike the dramatic anthologies of the 1950s, which are mostly unavailable to contemporary viewers, the long string of "classic" programs featuring not only genies and talking cars but millionaire hillbillies and talking dogs, island castaways and talking horses, Stone Age families and suburban witches continued to be frequently rerun into the 21st century.
Heidi, too, has appeared on a string of such programs ( Celebrity Big Brother, Sober House, even Animal Planet's Heidi Fleiss: Prostitutes to Parrots).
He was an early mainstream African-American star, remembered fondly for his clean stand-up comedy act and a string of television programs from the 1960s to 1990s, including "I Spy" and the top-rated "The Cosby Show".
