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Despite years of second-class media citizenship, radio has never lost its fervent champions. "We take radio for granted, but it's in our cars, our kitchens, our bedrooms," says Charles Osgood, the CBS Sunday-night TV anchor who also does wry, and often rhyming, commentaries on CBS radio each weekday morning. "If someone told me I couldn't do any more TV, I'd be unhappy. But if I had to choose, it would be radio." Another stalwart of the medium, News Commentator Paul Harvey is a surviving link to an earlier era of network radio...
...anonymity often extends to the on air personalities as well. With an average weekly audience of 2,527,000, NBC's Williams is the highest-rated radio talk-show host in America. Yet he could pass unrecognized on any city street, at least as long as he keeps his mouth shut. "Radio is an avocation, fun and games to me," says Williams, 53, who has been involved in a range of entrepreneurial ventures, from insurance and real estate to a car-rental agency and a florist business. Asked eleven years ago to invest in a radio station, he decided instead...
...President now has 85 vacancies to fill on the federal bench and 25 nominations waiting in the Senate for confirmation. Perhaps the two most prominent choices are James Buckley, 62, currently president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, for the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals and Berkeley Law Professor John Noonan, 59, for the Ninth Circuit in the Far West. The Administration has set up an elaborate process to examine candidates. Each receives a ten-page questionnaire. A daylong interview follows at the Justice Department. Further hurdles include review by a special Administration committee that meets each Thursday...
DIED. Morton Downey, 83, singer known as the "Irish thrush" (though he was U.S.-born) for his high, silvery tenor, who was one of radio's most popular and best-paid stars in the 1930s and '40s on The Camel Quarter Hour and The Coke Club, and later became a wealthy businessman who hobnobbed with socialites and top Democrats, notably the Kennedys; in Palm Beach...
Little Edgar is a witness to the nation's possibilities. He has been to the 1939-40 World's Fair, with its models of superhighways, bullet-shaped automobiles, electrical appliances and television, or "picture radio." He has, in fact, been there twice. The first time he accompanied a friend whose mother worked with Oscar the Amorous Octopus, a titillating sideshow at the amusement park. He returned on a family pass that he had won for his fawning entry in a typical-American-boy contest. The essay is heavy with irony. It also introduces a writer who knows what it takes...