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DAVID ROSS — CBS Announcer
F'JAVID ROSS was awarded a glittering gold medal by the American Academy of Arts and Letters as the 1932 prize for good diction.
Like all native New Yorkers David Ross began his struggle for fame and fortune as a newsboy. He delivered, as might be expected, a morning newspaper, which made it necessary for him to rise in the wee hours of the morning and brave the cold winds from the East River. All this, of course, is indispensable to any good success story. Diligent research has failed to reveal the exact period at which David Ross began writing poetry, but the records show that it must have been at an early age. The editors, immediately sensing a new and dangerous enemy in young Ross, hurled barrage after barrage of rejection slips in his direction, but the ambitious author, although only five feet, five inches in height, was made of sterner stuff than the editors had bargained for. He met their rejection slips with still more poetry. It could not go on this way eternally, and so the editors finally capitulated. The Nation and the New Republic raised the white flag and accepted the Ross poetry. The Measure, edited by Maxwell Anderson: Pearson’s Magazine, whose editor was Frank Harris, and such experimental magazines as This Quarter and Broom, fell before the Ross onslaught. And, as a climax, the selective precincts of the First American Caravan opened to receive the new arrival among the poets. About six years ago radio awoke one day to find that David Ross had become one of its own. Station WGBS in New York was his starting point. He began as a dramatic reader, became a regular announcer and finally developed a program of poetry readings. After two years with the station he joined Columbia. Among the programs he has announced for CBS are Arabesque, Around the Samovar, and many commercial broadcasts.
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