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Ted . Steele, gentleman farmer — the role that's dearest to his heart.
Ted's only complaint: a day is limited to twenty-four hours!
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Band leader, platter spinner, and more — Ted has a deep, rich baritone which he accompanies on the Hammond organ.
A VERSATILE young man is WMCA's Ted Steele, the disc jockey extraordinary, whose only complaint with life is the archaic custom which limits a day to twenty-four hours. As it is, the "Golden Boy" of the air now manages to be one of the busiest men in radio and a highly successful gentleman farmer on the side by double-timing from dawn to dusk.
As a platter spinner on the New York Independent station, the one-time NBC page boy goes on the air twice daily from 11 to 11:45 A.M., and from 2 to 5 P.M. on days no baseball is scheduled. On baseball days he precedes the baseball, starting 2 P.M. He plays the latest records, coaxes sweet music from the Hammond organ and sings in a deep, rich baritone when he's not interviewing big names from the show business whirl.
From WMCA Ted hustles each night to the famous Casino-on-the-Park in the Essex House to lead his reorganized band which is attracting recognition as one of the most promising of the new musical aggregations.
But it's down on his farm* at Doylestown, Pa., in the heart of celebrity-conscious Bucks County, where Farmer Ted Steele really has a chance to work at a hobby that has turned out to be almost as profitable as his entertainment endeavors.
The thirty-year-old showman grew up on a dairy farm in Belmont, Mass. He was milking cows and raising rabbits before he was six. At the age of thirteen he won a scholarship to the New England Conservatory of Music and farming was temporarily shelved while he
pursued his musical career.
Success came fast to the handsome New Englander and just before World War II he purchased a modest farm at Pearl River, N. Y. . . . He raised thousands of white mice, guinea pigs and rabbits for wartime medical research and was awarded a special citation by the War Department.
The next step was a modern, 150-acre farm at Doylestown. Here Steele raises pure-bred Guernsey cattle which have brought him many blue ribbons at county and state fairs. In addition, he has become the largest poultry breeder in the area.
Steele is now recognized as an authority, particularly on modern farming methods. Last year he was hired by Westinghouse as a special farm consultant. He personally answers hundreds of letters a week from farmers throughout the country.
Obviously, Ted couldn't maintain his pace of productive activity without help. And the head of the assistance department is pretty Doris Steele, his wife. Mrs. Steele, a former agent, manages her husband's business affairs, runs the farm while he's away and still finds time to raise two handsome little Steeles — Susan, six, and Sally, age five.
There's never time for a dull moment in the busy lives of this unique young family. Now if someone would only pass a bill in Congress making each day forty-eight hours long, the Steeles could accomplish twice as much.