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Listeners to WOR and the Mutual Net work last week heard a marine's-eye view of the fight for Peleliu. The narrator was shy, wry Sergeant Alvin Flanagan, Ma rine combat correspondent and ex-WOR (Manhattan) announcer. Microphone in hand, FM-walkie-talkie strapped to his back, Flanagan landed on the beach at Peleliu with the ist Marine Division, describing the scene as he went. His account went to an associate aboard a Marine transport offshore, where it was recorded for last week's broadcast...
...complicated tonsillectomy during high school dropped her voice an octave, and she began singing the blues. Rudy Vallee heard her and helped her to Manhattan, where she ended up on WOR sustaining after CBS and NBC had turned her down...
...difficulties in recording the actual sounds of battle were discussed last week by WOR-Mutual's Warcaster Dave Driscoll. He went to the Mediterranean with a portable recording outfit, intending to get the pandemonium of war on disks for rebroadcasting to the U.S. home front. But, said he last week...
...Howard, who reached this profound conclusion last week, should know. For 40 years he has been offering the very same brand of knockabout comedy that is now devoted to the flow of Piel's beer on Manhattan's station WOR. As ignoramus-in-chief of radio's least erudite quiz show, It Pays To Be Ignorant (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m., E.W.T.), he is one of the most faithful toilers in the old vaudeville garden...
...Laurie Jr., 50, who have wisecracked their collective way through no years of U.S. vaudeville, formal banquets, benefits, railroad smokers, etc. Their bow to Joe Miller was also a pat on the back for their radio program, Can You Top This? (NBC, Sat., 9:30-10 p.m.; WOR, Wed., 7:30-8 p.m., E.W.T...