CBS renamed its studio at Broadway and 53d Street, once the Billy Rose Theater, "The Ed Sullivan Theater" during his program on Dec. 10, 1967.

After The Evening Mail closed in 1923 he bounced through a series of news jobs with The Associated Press, The Philadelphia Bulletin, The show lasted until 1971, when CBS dropped it in favor of movies, which brought in more money for a smaller investment.

He didn't achieve that until he moved into the whirlwind world of television in 1948, and his weekly show became an essential part of Sunday evening for millions of Americans. Over the 23 years of his run, Mr. Sullivan presented a wide variety of entertainers, starting with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, who appeared on what Mr. Sullivan was fond of calling "a rilly big shew" on the first program in June, 1948.

Between 45,000,000 and 50,000,000 persons tuned in every week to watch the show--a vaudeville-like parade of top talent that cost $8,000,000 a year to produce and for which Mr. Sullivan received $164,000 a year.

In December, 1973, Mr. Sullivan was elected president of Theater Authority, Inc., an organization created by the entertainment unions and charitable guilds to safeguard members from exploitation by benefits, telethons and other charity functions. Sponsors were leery of him.

He often made visits abroad to film acts and sequences for his shows, among them the Brussels Worlds Fair in 1958.

pianos, "The Siege of Saragossa." Mr. Sullivan stuck to his job of master of ceremonies--introducing the acts, then getting out of the way.

He also put on the American television debuts of Jack Benny, Humphrey Bogart, Jackie Gleason, Maria Callas, Elvis Presley, Rudolf Nureyev, who danced with Dame Margo Fonteyn, his co-star of Britain's Royal Ballet, and, of course, the Beatles and their work.

In November 1963, while in Unlike many shows of the time, Sullivan asked that most musical acts perform their music live, rather than lip-synching to their recordings.Sullivan had an appreciation for African American talent.

became the "Ed Sullivan Show." This activity reached its peak during World War II, when he organized benefits in Madison Square Garden, one of which raised $226,000 for Army Emergency Relief, and another of which raised $249,000 for the American Red Cross. And there He served as national chairman of fund-raising drives for the National Foundation for Neuromuscular Disease and Rheumatism Foundation. Popular artists on The Ed Sullivan Show from music, film, Broadway, opera & comedy. In 1917 he ran away from home to Chicago and tried to enlist in the Navy, but was turned down because of his youth. "For his second Sullivan appearance in 1955, Bo Diddley planned to sing his namesake hit, "During Jackie Mason's October 1964 performance on a show that had been shortened by ten minutes due to an address by President Sullivan decided that "Girl, we couldn't get much higher", from the Doors' signature song "Sullivan, like many American entertainers, was pulled into the After the Draper incident, Sullivan began to work closely with Theodore Kirkpatrick of the anticommunist Cold War repercussions manifested in a different way when Sullivan butted heads with Standards and Practices on other occasions, as well.

Der Musiker wurde 55 Jahre alt. Ed Sullivan, a rock-faced Irishman with a hot temper, painful shyness and a disdain for phonies, had been a successful and well-known part of the Broadway scene since the Twenties.

"Put it all down as a nice treat for the kiddies. After graduation he worked for a while as a reporter on The Port Chester Daily Item--for which he had written sports news while in high school--and then in 1919 he joined The Hartford Post.

According to biographer He defied pressure to exclude African American entertainers, and to avoid interacting with them when they did appear.

I would have become a water skiier if I could have made money honestly and with integrity."