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Born and raised in Brooklyn as Larry Zeiger, King knew he wanted to be a broadcaster from age five, but his prospects did not look good. By the time he was nine, his father, a bar owner, had died, and his mother went on welfare to support Larry and his brother...
Want to know how ambitious Larry King, the top banana of talk-show hosts, is? When King, born Larry Zeiger, was growing up in Brooklyn, New York, and indifferent about school, his father went to the principal and suggested that Larry's teacher install him as eraser monitor. Most kids would have been horrified. Eraser monitors come in early, stay late, get all dusty with chalk, get razzed by classmates. But little Larry Zeiger thought the job was a promotion. Sitting out there on the playground, pounding erasers together and choking on chalk dust, he thought...
...wasn't easy. His father Edward Zeiger died in 1944 when Larry was only 10. (His brother Marty was six.) His mother Jennie went on relief for a year and then got a job in a sweatshop. King had long dreamed of being on radio and after high school took a job in the mail room of a New York office building that also happened to house a radio station. Five years later, in 1957, hearing that Miami was a more promising venue, he caught a bus heading south, started pounding on doors and finally was hired as a disk...
...Duncan (H), 10:09.98; 2. Zeiger (B), 10:15.71; 3. Gibbons...
...Duncan (H), 4:27.49; 2. Wriede (H) 4:28.36; 3. Zeiger...