Word: granik
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Ingredient No. 3. Who was the mysterious lawyer? He turned out to be Theodore Granik, counsel for the U.S. Housing Authority (predecessor to NHA) till 1941, onetime special adviser to WPB and now operator of "American Forum," a radio discussion program...
Impresario of the Forum of the Air is wispy, 37-year-old Theodore Granik, who looks like a younger version of Léon Blum. A lawyer by profession, Granik used to be assistant director of Manhattan's WGBS (now WINS), where he did everything from conducting Biblical readings to reporting prize fights. One of the ideas he cooked up for WGBS was a program known as Law for the Layman. When the station was sold in 1928, he transferred his show to WOR, decided to transform it into a forum after listening to Congressman Celler of New York...
...Granik's expenses are paid by Mutual's WOR, but he gets nothing in the way of salary. However, he picks up about $250 a month running a Forum, patterned after his air show, for United Feature Syndicate and he earns $10,000 a year as special counsel to the U. S. Housing Authority. Last week, he incorporated with Idea Man Maurice Dreicer (who introduced Where Are You From?), prepared to serve as consultant for any forum group in the country at fees ranging from...
...forum expert, Granik gets plenty of opportunity to exercise his skill when he takes to the air. Frequently his debaters start battling over cocktails at the Willard Hotel, from which the Forum is broadcast, work themselves into a knock-down-drag-out humor even before they reach a mike. A memorable evening was provided by Burton Wheeler when he growled that the "New Deal's triple 'A' foreign policy" would "plough under every fourth American boy." Spectators at the show are also often difficult. Before he established the rule that questions from the floor must be submitted...