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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...