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TED HUSING — CBS Announcer
'T'ED HUSING is so typically a New Yorker that no one would surmise he was born a long way from the Hudson. However, we find that his birthplace is Deming, N. M. The family soon moved to Gloversville, N. Y., and later to New York City, where he attended Stuyvesant High School. While there he laid his groundwork in the realm of sports by starring at basketball, baseball, boxing, and football, being selected all-scholastic center for two years in the latter, his favorite sport. War disrupted Ted’s collegiate ambitions and, by adding two years to his real age, he joined the Intelligence Service of the Army. The only fighting he experienced, however, was in the boxing matches at Governor’s Island, where he usually emerged victorious. The first few post-war years found him passing through a succession of jobs, playing professional football and baseball, teaching aviation to policemen, selling wicker furniture, running in Wall Street, and teaching calisthenics in boom-time Florida. On his return North he heard of an audition for announcers at a New York station, applied, and was selected from more than 600 candidates. His fame as an announcer soon grew, and he joined the Columbia staff five years ago. He made a reputation as one of the outstanding studio announcers, but it is as an expert of sporting events and other special occasions that he has been acclaimed as leader. He is probably “the fastest human” where radio gabbing is concerned . . . once confounded competitors in a stenography speed contest conducted by a newspaper, for none of them could record his 400 words a minute ... is a vivid and colorful ad-libber, following the action he describes with lightning rapidity and without sacrificing accuracy and lucidity . . . has developed extraordinary faculties for observation, concentration, and memory . . . is as adept at describing tennis, golf, horse racing, hockey, basketball, and virtually all sports, as he is at football, for which he is probably best known . . . believes in adapting his speed to the tempo of the sport being considered, and none is too fast for him . . . speaks very softly. He is witty and known for his keen repartee ... is self-confident, outspoken, and aggressive . . . would rather broadcast football than anything else.
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