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Having made my living (from time to time!) in radio acting and announcing for the past twelve years, it seems incredible that I should feel the slightest curiosity about a fellow Afra member! But I do, and that fellow is Westbrook Van Voorhis, whom you fellows were smart enough to sign up exclusively for the MARCH OF TIME broadcasts. He is so distinctly superior to any other announcer on the air-both in his dramatic narrative and his commercial "plugging"-that I marvel at the lack of publicity and recognition regarding him. Surely, anyone who has ever faced a microphone...
...Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), brown-haired Cornelius Westbrook Van Voorhis, 39 this month, has been on the MARCH OF TIME since 1931 (when it made its debut). He was signed exclusively by TIME, as its Voice, in 1937. Until then he had worked for some 50 programs, under at least five names. No longer anonymous, "Van" is now introduced under his own name to the world each week on MARCH OF TIME'S weekly broadcasts...
...train, arranged a luncheon, took her to see the Cannon textile mills 18 miles away, had Towel-Maker Charles Cannon explain how he treats 16,000 workers. Impressed, Mrs. Roosevelt nodded "My Day" approval in a way that would wound many a union man and flabbergast Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "In view of all this, which seems to meet high union standards, I was surprised to find that the mill was not unionized, but Mr. Cannon said they had always had good labor relations ever since his father had started the mill in '88." Charles Cannon gave...
...nomination completely sewed up, stands the best chance in twenty years to walk into the Albany State House without even bothering to campaign. When 1944 rolls around, he will be a ready-made Presidential candidate. With the paternal blessings of Herbert Hoover and Alf Landon, and with support from Westbrook Pegler, the nation's most widely read columnist, Dewey will be the most seasoned piece of 1944 Republican timber...
Pegler. The publishers were smoking mad at ''that archtraitor Westbrook Pegler." In his April 28 column Pegler had damned the two biggest Negro papers-the Pittsburgh Courier (circ. 130,000) and the Chicago Defender (circ. 83,000)-for exploiting the war emergency to stir up race issues among Negroes in the services. He called them "reminiscent of Hearst at his worst in their sensationalism, and in their obvious inflammatory bias in the treatment of news." In addition he indicted them for exploiting their own people with sucker ads (Luck's Genuine Magnetic Lodestones, $1, etc.), for scandalous...