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adding machine and tabulated paper and sang for a year. Then he began covering all sports events except polo and has a rapid-fire Gibbonesque-type of mike spieling . . . best on describing ice hockey, but also a prime favorite for fights, wrestling, football, soccer, tennis, track and basketball.
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WAWRENCE (LARRY) J. KEATING, late of New York and points east, is a new announcing voice on KGW in Portland. He was in "Men in White" and "Queer People" on Broadway last season.
■WJfcfHEN you hear Irvin E. (Edward) Dickinson's voice on KERN, in Bakersfield, you are also hearing the station's chief engineer for he acts in dual capacity, but of course the public knows him for his speaking voice. He has always been interested in radio . . . first as an amateur, now for public broadcast, and in leisure moments as commanding officer of one of the naval reserve units.
niCK has been with KERN since the station opened. Right after school days, however, he served a term in the navy as a radioman in the submarine division. His reserve rank is that of a lieutenant. He is more than six feet tall, weighs about 150 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes. His newest hobby is aviation and he expects a Christmas present of a license. He is married, and likes to sneak away on a "second honeymoon" every once in awhile to the big cities where his wife gets saturated with shopping and theatres and he . . . visits radio stations.
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[OW would you like to meet some more of the jamboree gang from KFRC in San Francisco? There's Helene Hughes, who is sort of top sergeant for the staff sopranos. She was born on a Montana ranch, but came to the big city to make good several years ago. She finally plopped into the radio realm via the vaudeville and musical comedy route.
JkND there's Claude Sweeten, music conductor of the station. He started his musical career as a director and still is. For ten years he directed theatre orchestras around the bay district and then entered radio. He has a rare sense of humor. Conductor Sweeten really started out as a musical prodigy, tooting that piece of fancy plumbing known as the tuba. But he suffered a heart attack while playing it and had to transfer his allegiance to the violin.
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IOOK at Bea Benaderet, newcomer to the jamboree fracas, who does character speaking and singing bits. Her first role on the stage was a 70-year-old
woman. But she got a crick in her back from rehearsals and switched over to comedy parts.
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^YRUS TROBBE, KYA's master music mind, organized his orchestra into a hiking club last fall. But after a trial heat the bunch disbanded, and for a day or so the corner drug store did a land-office business in horse liniment. He was born, grew up and studied in New York before going to the coast several years ago. (Continued on page 82)
Carme! Myers, star in. flicker -film days has become quite a radio favorite on the West Coast. She dramatizes her songs.
L. POWER