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Peter Grant, with WLW secretary Evelyn Walters, cheeks one of the newscasts which have built his reputation for reliable reporting wherever WLW is heard. His mother (r.) enjoys Peter's broadcasts, but enjoys even more a session with her son's colorful scrapbooks.
THERE'S a strong connection between a young man from St. Louis named Melvin Maginn and WLW's ace newscaster Peter Grant. In fact, you can trace Melvin's career through its soda clerk, tree surgeon, bus driver and law student phases right up to the radioannouncing phase in which he became Peter Grant.
During the bus-driving days in St. Louis in 1924, Melvin used to combine an informative sight-seeing spiel with the maneuvering of his vehicle. One of his passengers, much impressed, told him he ought to be "on the radio." "I laughed and laughed," Peter says, "because f knew I was going to be a lawyer." This was the goal on which he kept his. eye all through George Washington University and law school. He reached it, unfortunately, in 1930, when he graduated — right into the middle of the recession. At that point, of necessity, he took his eye off it and looked around for something
that would feed him. A bright friend urged him on to Station KMOX, feeling that Peter's active undergraduate background in amateur theatricals might qualify him for radio acting. It did; gradually he did less acting and more announcing, and in 1932 transferred to WLW to become chief announcer. Except for four Army years which took him to Hawaii and sent him back a Major, Peter's been at WLW ever since, building in the midwest his solid reputation for crisp, understandable news delivery. He has also announced major network programs, Famous Jury Trials and the Red Skelton Show among them.
Listeners approve of what Peter calls the "25% British" in his diction. It's in character, for Peter is a horse-and-dog man. He lives a comfortable bachelor life with his father and mother, hunts with the Camargo Hunt Club and has a closet full — naturally — of tweeds.
Portrait of a squire: WLW newscaster Peter Grant is a horse-and-hound, pipe-and-tweeds man
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