The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon individual stations, airing on ABC on Sunday, September 1, 2013, and running two hours. The final edition aired on ABC on August 31, 2014, again as a two-hour special, beginning at 9PM ET/PT. It was announced on May 1, 2015 that the MDA would be discontinuing the annual event for good. Jerry Lewis began hosting telethons to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America (MDAA) in 1952 after a plea from a staff member who worked with Lewis and Dean Martin on "The Colgate Comedy Hour". Lewis had previously taken part in what has been described as the very first
Cecil Day-Lewis it Far to Go?", reads: <poem> "Shall I be gone long?" "To whom there belong?" </poem> Day-Lewis fathered four children . His first two children, with Constance Mary King, were Sean Day-Lewis, a TV critic and writer, and Nicholas Day-Lewis, who became an engineer. His children with Balcon were Tamasin Day-Lewis, a television chef and food critic, and Daniel Day-Lewis, who became an award-winning actor . Sean Day-Lewis published a biography of his father, "C. Day Lewis: An English Literary Life" (1980). Daniel Day-Lewis donated his father’s archive to the Bodleian library. In 1935, Day-Lewis decided to increase his income