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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tomorrow," declared Manhattan's WOR weatherman, "will be cloudy and overcast." Then he added, "or, as the French would put it, triste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prophet | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Princeton game, November 8--WHDR; WACE; WOR, New York; WPPG, Atlantic City, New Jersey: WTTM. Trenton New Jersey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radio Coverage Of Coming Tilts | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

Would feminine ears, long adjusted to the ingenuous tones of such workers as Alma Kitchell and Martha Deane, take kindly to Flossy's sophisticated accent? Manhattan's WOR has high hopes. The station says it picked her over 1,000 applicants.* Flossy herself has few doubts that she will be a wow. Almost since the day when, at 14, she came out of Allendale, N. J. and into the public eye as a Powers model, her career has been steered by an indulgent, avuncular "board of directors": John Robert Powers, Columnist Walter Winchell, Publicist Steve Hannagan, Cinemogul Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Personality | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...definitely apocryphal. Don himself recalls hearing the same gag told back in 1926 before he entered radio, as having happened to an Uncle "Gee Bee," a radio uncle on the now defunct New York station WGBS. Incidentally . . . Uncle Don started a new half-hour series on WOR March 1 in the new role of "Children's Disc Jockey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 26, 1947 | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Station WOR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 26, 1947 | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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