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...years ago on Long Island, started in journalism as a copy boy for the old New York Sun. There he ran errands for the late Grantland Rice, and John Kieran helped him with his math homework. At the end of World War II he was a newscaster and disk jockey for the armed forces radio stations in the Philippines. Back home, he covered the U.N. for the United Press before he enrolled at Harvard. Graduated in 1950, Connery worked for a year in the university's news office, then joined TIME. Ranging out of our Chicago bureau...
Cornball Disk Jockey...
...your Aug. 13 mag you call me a "rock 'n' roll" disk jockey. I have been actively fighting the stuff for years, and am known far and wide as the fearless champion of genuine cornball music. This way-out rock 'n' roll is strictly for the squares...
...Boone is still not convinced that his success is real or permanent. He is a high-mark senior at Columbia University, is still planning to become a teacher. Last week, on a swing through the Midwest, he wound up eleven shows in 14 days. A Baton Rouge disk jockey, determined to get Boone to town by some means or other, climbed a pole and announced his determination to sit there until the hero arrived. "He's gonna sit there until I come down," sighs Pat, "so I suppose I'll have...
...Jordan's Sari Aweidah, 26, a producer-announcer with the government-owned Hashemite Jordan Broadcasting Service, the junket provided his first professional contact with TV. Biggest beef: the "24-hour-a-day 'disk jockey.' It is just appalling. Perhaps that is because in Jordan we like to think of radio as a field where you transmit education, through entertainment...