Day Tripping: January 17

A Real Star

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The iconic lady we lost last month before he 100th birthday was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1922. Betty White insisted that Betty was her given name, and not shortened from Elizabeth.

Her earliest work in media began just before her high school graduation. Betty and her classmates sang on what was then experimental television. After school, she took modelling jobs and then…