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...born 30 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...
...done their bit by pulling in their outfield fences. With such help and such a hot start (at week's end nine games ahead of Ruth's 1927 pace), Mantle looks like the man to cross the 60-homer barrier and set the sentimentalists to keening John Kieran's farewell...
After that, Huett turned himself into a kind of street-corner John Kieran, with a sign on his back: "Ich sage Verse Dir; Gib einen Pfennig mir" ("I'll tell you a verse; you give me a penny.") Customers have flocked to him: schoolchildren who need help on their homework, and adults who want the words of the latest song. Huett has answered everything from "What happens in Schiller's Joan of Arc?" to "Recite some verses from Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz," has even been known to recite a geometric theorem or two. About...
When radio's Information Please was looking for someone to help ex-New York Timesman John Kieran edit its almanac, it picked a man from the rival Herald Tribune: City Editor Joe Herzberg. Manhattan-born Herzberg, who started on the Trib as an 18-year-old copy boy, never finished college. But he knows his city like the palm of his hand, and in his encyclopedic memory, say staffers, is "everything from baseball to Bach." Joe Herzberg once wrote in his own book, Late City Edition: "A modern newspaper is Thucydides sweating to make a deadline...
Information Please (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Franklin P. Adams, John Kieran, Clifton Fadiman and Guest George Jessel...