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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Thank You, Mr. Husing! | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 30, 1946 | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 30, 1946 | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: $1-a-Year Dean | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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