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CARLYLE STEVENS — CBS Announcer
C',ARL’ILE STEVENS was born at Parkhill, Ontario, May 23, 1907, of a family settled there for several generations. For a time he worked at the Ford Motor plant in Detroit as an accountant, and later found work in a Detroit advertising agency. He tried his hand at writing fiction, but being unable to sell any short stories he adapted them for radio presentation. No use was found for the scripts but he was told that the station was looking for a new announcer and that he couldn’t lose anything by taking an audition. So, unexpect¬ edly, he found himself gaining thorough experience as an annoucer, continuity writer, producer of dramatic programs, and sound effects expert. In 1931 he obtained a job as staff announcer at WLTH, Brooklyn, where he found himself doing all he had done at WX\ Z, and more. Meanwhile he filed an application at WABC, in case of a vacancy, being accustomed to the familiar phrase, “This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.” The vacancy occurred and, after a successful audition, he joined the Columbia staff. He is goodlooking and slightly mustached . . . light brown hair and eyes . . . weight 145 and height five feet, ten and one-half inches . . . his chief hobby is the theatre — mostly as a spectator, although he has done some amateur acting and has had some experience in radio acts . . . writing is another hobby, and he has had articles, sketches, and humorous material published . . . hopes some day to sell some short stories . . . reads a great deal . . . played football and basketball in school . . . now goes in for tennis,
canoeing, and motor-boating, if, as, and when possible . . . thinks fishing a waste of time . . . has an epicure’s taste and likes to search out queer and obscure restaurants where he can discover new types of cooking . . . his main dislikes Loth concern lines — he can t stand waiting in line, nor can he approve of insincere people who depend, to get along, on the highly developed technique known in schoolgirl idiom, as “a line” . . . has been called on both to broadcast the snorts of an elephant and to tell a dignified but redundant judge that he had talked long enough.
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