Clellan Card

Card was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and spent most of his life in the Twin Cities region, although he attended Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The Axel character, a loony "Scandihoovian", was created by Card in the late 1930s on a morning radio show on WCCO AM called Almanac of the Air.

[1] Card suffered great losses in September, 1952, and January, 1953, when the oldest two of his three children died in separate accidents.

Donald Stolz, founder of the Old Log Theater, played Towser, the dog, and soon added Tallulah the cat as well.

In October 1954, the show was the first local program in the Twin Cities to be broadcast in color, using an experimental system.