Word: greb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Station WEAF, began to ask questions. Attracted by his voice, a studio official hired Graham McNamee on the spot. From an announcer-singer, the neophyte soon became the best-known voice of the '20s. Fans first heard the familiar "Take it away, Graham," when he covered the Greb-Wilson title fight in the summer of '23, and the same year McNamee gave his first free translation of a World Series...