Word: heatter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Gabriel Heatter, 81, radio commentator whose famous opener, "Ah, there's good news tonight," brightened the dark days of World War II; of pneumonia; in Miami Beach. After getting his first journalistic experience on the old New York American, Heatter switched to the young field of radio news in the early '30s. He won national attention in 1936 with 53 minutes of dramatic, adlibbed commentary from outside the death house the night Kidnaper Bruno Hauptmann was executed. For the next quarter-century, Heatter's mellifluous baritone carried good news and bad to huge network audiences...