Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...song" type of broadcast (Fear, Hope, Hatred, etc.), which he employs upon occasion, packs an awful wallop. We deeply regret that atmospheric conditions will soon be such that many nights we shall have to retire without obtaining his clear, complete, nonpartisan, well interpreted picture of the day's news. Fifteen minutes with Paul Sullivan at the microphone seems to pass as quickly as a scared cat through a doorway...
Could you spare the space to print a picture of, and a little information about this man Sullivan? He may not make news as does Boake Carter but, like TIME, he knows how to poignantly report it. W. E. HAYDEN...
Vincent Paul Sullivan is one of the few radio news commentators without a newspaper background. Twenty-eight-year-old son of Missouri Pacific Railroad's chief tariff inspector, he was born in St. Louis, operated an amateur radio station as a boy, worked as announcer at various Midwestern stations after leaving Christian Brothers College and studying law. He reads aloud at home to improve his enunciation, has been broadcasting WLW's news reports, written from wire service releases by the station's newsroom, since last year...
...ambition: "To be the best gosh-darned news commentator in existence...
...further news concerning Kentucky and its colonelcies...