Here are two photos of the late Jackson Beck in roles he played on radio. At left, he has the title role in Philo Vance, Detective, which ran from 1948 through 1950. At right, he's The Cisco Kid from the radio show of the same name, which aired from 1942 through 1945. (Two years later, it came back with a different cast.) Mr. Beck was about as Hispanic as Miracle Whip but in those days, no one gave much thought to such matters. The few hundred episodes he recorded for these two shows represent a tiny fraction of all that Beck did in radio. And his radio work represents a tiny fraction of all that he did before microphones. [Thanks to his pal Anthony Tollin for the Cisco photo.]