Word: wls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave up ball-playing when he concluded that he could never hit .300. He knew how to bat the drums and sing a little-"I was what you call a dramatic tenor, singing The Road to Mandalay and stuff like that." After writing songs and "running material" fof WLS' National Barn Dance, he formed his own band. His first job: playing for Fan Dancer Sally Rand at Chicago's 1933 World's Fair...
...first radioman she approached with her idea said bluntly: "It stinks. Too educational." Her first big Quizdown, jointly sponsored by the Chicago Times and Station WLS, went on the air in October 1945. It has gone on weekly ever since, sponsored by newspapers and local radio stations in Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Detroit, Miami, San Diego. Next month Columbus, Ohio, becomes her 14th Quiz-down town...
Chuck Brynteson at forward and John Althrochi at guard round out the Freshman top seven. Brynteson gained his experience at Sherewood High in Milwaukee, Wls., while Altrocchi was learning the ropes at Andover...
...nicknamed him "Scoop"; then she named him Harve Bennett-because it sounded like a byline. Before he started school mother Kitty had taught him to recite by heart the names of all the U.S. presidents. When he was ten, she marched him down to Chicago's station WLS. For the next five years, Harve was a Quiz Kid, one of the best. He made more money (about $20,000) than any Kid except Dick Williams...
...feet, Arthur Starnes bailed out. Everything worked like a clock, an altimeter or a pneumograph. On the way down, Chicago's Station WLS picked up the beats of his heart, rebroadcast them...