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...roundabout way that began in Reedville, Va., where she sang in a Methodist choir, played Mabel in a high-school production of The Pirates of Penzance, and acquired an altitudinous nose-tilt that earned her the nickname "Little Miss God." After graduation, she breezed into Washington's Station WRC, asked for a singing job, and got one-a 10 a.m. spot twice a week over NBC. The pay: $16 a broadcast...
Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho starred in a little silly-season whoop-te-do over Washington's radio station WRC. Senator Claude Pepper bravely tooted his harmonica, Congressman James Percy Priest struggled with a guitar, a quartet sang, but Taylor and his banjo took the cake with Cowboy Joe from Idaho. As the legislator "most likely to succeed in radio," he got $100 from Senator Claghorn-in Confederate money, that...
...breakfast? Harry Truman laughed at the question. "Will he talk? Just give him a microphone and stand aside. "Washington Radioman Bill Herson did. Result: The capital's liveliest, most popular breakfast program, Coffee with Congress, which last week began its second year over Station WRC...
Every Saturday morning, Herson plants a WRC microphone on some Congressman's breakfast table, gives & takes an ad-lib chatter over ham & eggs. The only rule: no politics. Beyond that, Senators and Representatives and their families discuss every subject that should be aired and some that shouldn...
...Holzman's letter during a shark-hunt off Lewes, Del., when I was roused by a shout from one of our party: "I got one!" He was Herluf Provensen, who was presidential announcer for NBC out of Washington until he became assistant manager of its Washington stations, WRC and WMAL. Sure 'nuff, he had one a 300-lb. shark, measuring about 7 ft.! It was the last of four caught by our party, which also included Harold Talburt, Scripps-Howard's 1933 Pulitzer Prizewinning cartoonist; Harry C. Butcher, Columbia Broadcasting System's Washington representative...