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...meter race in the 1912 Olympics, had no inkling that anything was amiss as he ended his appointed kilometer; he lit the torch of twelve-year-old Timothy Towers, who had won the honor in a raffle, and urged, "Carry on." But as the 22nd runner, Nicole Zell, age 13, started her kilometer outside city hall in Manhattan shortly after noon, word crackled over radios in the sparse crowd that the Olympics were once more being seared by political animosity. Moscow had just announced that when the last torchbearer carries the flame into the Los Angeles Coliseum on July...
DIED. Harry Von Zell, 75, portly announcer who played the jovial neighbor on the Burns and Allen radio and television series; of cancer; in the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif. Von Zell started his career in 1927 as a singer for a small California station. As a CBS announcer, he achieved notoriety when he introduced President Herbert Hoover as "Hoobert Heever." Von Zell was a commentator on early March of Time programs and his quick wit won him roles on the radio shows of Will Rogers, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor and Ed Wynn...
Some would answer that the whole fuss over jury selection is exaggerated. Says Glenn Zell, an Atlanta attorney who has specialized in defending obscenity cases: "If you take the first twelve, it'll be just as good...
...mistakes made on radio and television consisted largely of toilet jokes, but were nonetheless a great hit in the 1950s. Schafer was an avid self-promoter and something of a blooper himself, but he did have an ear for such things as the introduction by Radio Announcer Harry Von Zell of President "Hoobert Heever," as well as the interesting message: "This portion of Woman on the Run is brought to you by Phillips' Milk of Magnesia." Bloopers are the lowlife of verbal error, but spoonerisms are a different fettle of kitsch. In the early 1900s the Rev. William Archibald...
...lyrics of a new country-and-western ditty that has come out of Atlanta and was written by Georgia's Lieutenant Governor Zell Miller. Miller's lament may never make the Top Forty, but a great many of his countrymen surely share his gloom about having to "do without." As in past times of leaping prices and deepening economic slump, Americans are taking seriously the task of cutting back their household budgets...