Word: porteous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sports editor Clark Porteous, from the staff of the Memphis Press Scimitar, holds track records at Southwestern University (class of '34) in the 2 mile (9.28) mile (4.18) half mile (1.55 and quarter (50 sec.) He specializes now in long distance commuting from Hingham; which is South...
...Sizable Following. Putnam does not write what he reports; that is ably done by NBC news writers. Putnam reads it after "processing" it for two hours. "Processing" consists of marking the copy to suggest intonations and going over it with Roy Porteous, night supervisor of NBC announcers. "I prefer," says George Putnam, "to say that Putnam works hours in the preparation of his news." He also says, of other radio commentators: "It doesn't matter that they've been all over the world. When these people are back a couple of months they can't tell...