In October 1933, Jean Harlow’s film Bombshell premiered. It is from this that she earned the nickname “The Blonde Bombshell.”
Throughout the 1930’s, William P. MacCracken Jr. served as director of the aeronautics branch of the Department of Commerce, and went on to become an optometrist.
The Ricardos’ phone number in I Love Lucy is Murray Hill 5-9975.