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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Pittsburgh last week, Newscaster Paul Long, speaking casually on NBC's network show News of the World, announced: "John L. Lewis just shot Santa Claus. That's what one miner told me today in commenting on the coming coal strike . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Exaggerated Report | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Like many another College listener, Kyser's wife, pretty ex-Model Georgia Carroll, once protested that the quiz questions were too easy. (Sample, flubbed last week by a contestant: "What presidential candidate wore a brown derby and used Sidewalks of New York as a campaign song?") Grudgingly, Kyser agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keep It Simple | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Kyser's solicitude for lackwit contestants may stem from his own difficulties in graduating from the University of North Carolina. The combined efforts of his erudite family (his cousin was dean of the Graduate School; his uncle founded the Pharmacy Department) barely managed to get him an A.B. degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keep It Simple | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Kyser does not play up to the TV camera, because "if I'm having fun I ain't looking anywhere." Program suggestions from his sponsor (Ford Dealers) and TV Director Earl Ebi are welcome so long as they do not violate the College's basic Simple-Simon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keep It Simple | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

At that fortuitous moment, Cameron met lissome, brunette Helen Maria Alvarez, 27, who in seven years at Tulsa's radio station KTUL had progressed from secretary to radio-time saleswoman. He soon persuaded Helen Alvarez to quit her job and become president of a new Cameron project-Tulsa'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Helen of Tulsa | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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