Word: talker
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...enough to start a lending library. ("Now," says Ted, "I never read books. I read myself out as a child. I started with Horatio Alger and went right through the Rover Boys.") And as a boy he got the idea that he would like to be a professional talker. "I dreamed about my name on an office door," he recalls. "Ted Husing, Commentator." After batting around in a dozen jobs, from carnival shill to real estate, Ted saw his dream come true. In 1924 he was hired as one of WJZ's first full-time announcers. He has been...
Anybody listening outside the door of our overseas communications room around six o'clock in the evening might think that we had trapped a hornet in a rain barrel. That angry noise is, however, the voice of our London "talker" coming in over the transatlantic radio telephone at some 300 words a minute...
...speed up the foreign news traffic from its correspondents abroad. We began using it during the war for the same reason. With us it generally works this way: when one of our correspondents has written the story we asked him to get, he turns it over to a professional talker who chants it as fast as he can into a radio transmitter. At this end we record his words on film, disk or wire recorders from which the story is transcribed for the editorial department...
...covering sentence. "No matter how superior Holy Cross proves to be against a Dartmouth team that unquestionably has its weaknesses. . ." Right there they cover themselves. Not on ends Monahan and Rusch the release sticks to them right through--but with a little wedge like that a fast talker can do almost anything...
...Lafe Parks stuck to his school, hobbling out from the hospital on crutches to quell a mutiny of the dozen students, who wanted their money back. Persuasive Parks, a better talker than he had been a pilot, talked them...