general manager, Fitzgerald was told the program would have its last airing that evening and that this last show would be recorded for broadcast so station attorneys could review it prior to its airing. Angry to be thought of as unprofessional after fifty years in radio, Fitzgerald refused to tape a last broadcast. The station began receiving angry letters from Fitzgerald's many listeners, some of whom had been listening to the shows for many years. There was also a good deal of adverse publicity from newspaper articles which extended beyond the coverage area of WOR. By 1985, Fitzgerald moved to WNYC. Fitzgerald also returned to the WOR airwaves in 1985 as the hostess of a radio program for the Millennium Guild. The program aired from 11:30 to midnight on weekdays; it was sponsored by the Guild, an animal charity with five shelters in the New York City area. Fitzgerald was also executive director of the organization. Television The Fitzgeralds was on ABC-TV in the late 1940s and early 1950s. A 1949 review of their program, seen on WJZ-TV, noted: "Theirs is the first regularly televised married duo session. Instead of the typical breakfast table setting, the Fitzgeralds move easily about a facsimile of their own living room." On September 22, 1952, the Fitzgeralds launched a syndicated 15-minute program that featured their "giving household hints [and integrating] commercials by national advertisers." The program was placed in local markets with sponsorship by stores that sold the products advertised. By early October, the program was seen in 12 markets. In the mid-1950s, Pegeen Fitzgerald was reporter-editor for Windows, an NBC-TV effort to promote local businesses via 5-minute programs on stations owned by the network. Fitzgerald hosted episodes for Gimbels and Bergdorf Goodman on WRCA-TV, displaying the stores' merchandise for viewers. Other professional activities In 1955, Fitzgerald appeared in testimonial advertisements for Clairol. The ads appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and The New Yorker. Prior to that, Pegeen was in charge of a series of full page advertisements for the United States Lines, notably the United States and the American, going from New York to Europe. The ads featured some information about the ship and its amenities, as well as photographs of the wealthy and celebrated guests on the voyages. Fitzgerald, a vegetarian, published a meatless cook book in 1968 called, "Meatless Cooking: Pegeen's Vegetarian Recipes" in 1968. Personal life She wed Ed Fitzgerald