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Insult, like any other minor art, attracts its not-so-artful practitioners. Currently the bluntest instrument of them all is a Los Angeles broadcaster named Joe Pyne, who has become simultaneously the industry's hottest property and, as New York Times Critic Jack Gould recently said, its "ranking nuisance." On his interview shows, Pyne often addresses callers and guests as "stupid," "jerk" or "meathead." An epileptic was once asked: "Just why do you think people should feel sorry for you?" Pyne's standard lines run from "Go gargle with razor blades" to "Take your teeth...
...doing just as well. Another TV program, taped for syndication, is carried weekly in three cities across the country and 21 more will be added in September. His syndicated radio interviews play daily in 254 cities, with an average ten new stations signing up each week. In addition, Pyne is host of NBC's daily Showdown, a typically mindless daytime quiz game. Blond, seldom-smiling Joseph Pyne, 41, is on the air altogether 27 hours a week, earns about $200,000 a year...
Charles C. Pyne, bursar of the University, died yesterday after collapsing in his Lehman Hall office. He had been a member of the administrative staff of Harvard since...
...former Naval officer, Pyne served for eight years as assistant to the University's administrative vice-President and for one year as assistant bursar before becoming bursar in 1956. Previously, he was deputy administrative secretary of the Research and Development board in Washington...
Although only three students have borrowed from the plan this year, Pyne suggested that more might take out loans after the tuition increase in January...