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...Harvey Aurandt was born in Tulsa, Okla., in 1918; his father was shot and killed by robbers when Paul was 3. As a kid, he built a radio set to receive distant magic signals, and in high school, a teacher nudged him into a radio booth at local station KVOO. Jobs in Salina, Kans., Oklahoma City and Honolulu followed just before Pearl Harbor brought him to Chicago in 1944. He stayed there, hosting a Jobs for G.I. Joe program, adding his signature phrase "the rest of the story" the following year. He got his own show, on WENR, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Harvey: The End of the Story | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

Gene Autry is no stranger to radio. He twanged his first radio ballad over KVOO in Tulsa in 1928, for nothing. Hollywood tapped him in 1934 to start a movie career that no other hell-for-leather guitar plunker has ever equaled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Double Mint Ranch | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...long time Tulsa, Oklahoma, had the said oil helds and the acrid stench of petroleum, the world said, "Of Oklahoma expect only the and the oil of the soil." Yet KVOO of produced such ideahists in radio as Kathryn former Tulsa University student, whose voice resounds from coast coast in Columbia's Through a Woman's Miss Cravens tried and the stage before voice was radio. Now an manufacturer is have her voice his auspices

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Sisters of Skillet" Met at Notre Dame | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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