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Ever since he donned a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles. Reed Browning has known nothing hut success
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As emcee of a wide variety of local and network shows, Reed is friendly, vivacious and handy with an ad-lib.
Contestant Jeanne Belmont of Minneapolis races to ring the bell for the jackpot on Reed's network show.
Folks visiting Hollywood — or those who live there — have three easy and pleasant ways to meet one of the friendliest and most cheerful emcees in show business, Reed Browning. Anyone appearing in the vicinity of Sunset and Vine any weekday morning or afternoon, is quite apt to become an active part of Reed's two allaround-good-fun shows. Beat The Record, heard locally over Station KABC, or The Reed Browning Show, heard over the ABC Network. Both programs offer a delightful fare of music, spontaneous fun and prize quizzes, and feature popular performers such as Rex Koury, Art and Dotty Todd and Ronnie Kemper. If, by chance, visiting firemen miss either of these happy sessions, they can drop by the famous Cocoanut Grove and join Reed in his evening coast-to-coast Cocoanut Grove Party.
If Reed's face looks familiar and his voice sounds the same, it is undoubtedly because this busy emcee has appeared on a stream of radio and TV shows, from The Breakfast Club and Philco Hall Of Fame, to The Jack Owens Show and Crusade In Europe.
Originally, Reed had wanted to be a trumpet player, but, while still a student in Decatur, Illinois, his football activities prevented him from .playing in the band. Hence, his musical career ended. As an English major at the University of Illinois, Reed became interested in radio, so, after graduation, he sent records of his voice to a host of radio stations. One of these was Station KGMB in Honolulu. On the strength of his long-distance audition, the station hired Reed as an announcer and emcee. In short time, he became a tremendous favorite with the local populace and was affectionately known as "Unka Beel." He also made a hit with an attractive young actress named Laurel who was appearing in a play in Honolulu and whom Reed soon took as his bride.
After two years in the land of swaying palms, Reed and Laurel returned to the States, where he got a job with Station KYA in San Francisco. A year later, NBC approached him. During an ensuing interview, Reed —