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TRIPLETHREAT TOM
Jack Kelly, Jr. shows Tom plaque he received as Diamond Sculls rowing champ.
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WFIL sports director Tom Moorehead is swamped with mail as a result of his daily radio and TV shows.
One look at the current broadcasting schedule of Tom Moorehead, WFIL sports director, is all that's necessary to confirm the station's claim that he is one of the busiest, most versatile radio-television personalities in the country.
Tom, who qualifies as sportscaster, disc jockey, and quizmaster, now has two daily radio programs, one weekly radio show, and three weekly telecasts on his list of regular assignments. All these jobs add up to a grand total of eight hours, fifty-five minutes a week on the air — but Tom takes it all in stride, just as he does when performing such unusual acts as broadcasting a crew race from a blimp or conducting an auction on television.
(He did such an outstanding job on the WFIL-TV March of Dimes auction this year that approximately $10,000 was raised for the drive on polio during his three hours and forty-five minutes before the cameras.)
An expert ad libber, Moorehead had broadcast fourteen different types of sports events during his years on the air as a radio and television commentator — a record in this day of specialists. One of his greatest assets has been a phenomenal memory which makes it easy for him to keep track of the athletes.
Last winter Tom was kept busy commuting from Philadelphia to New York, where he did the television commentary for the weekly wrestling bouts at Broadway Arena and college basketball games at the Columbia University gymnasium.
A former all-around athlete himself, Tom now confines his physical exertions to golf, a game which challenges all his skill and patience. He hasn't been playing long but he says he's improving every day.
Moorehead's present radio schedule includes a Mondaythrough-Saturday sports show on WFIL and a Mondaythrough-Friday disc jockey program, as well as a weekly thirty-minute Sports Clinic session on Saturday mornings.
On television, he shares the microphone with Tommy Loughran, former world's light-heavyweight champion, on the WFIL-TV telecasts of the Police Athletic League boxing bouts every Friday night. In addition, he conducts two weekly quiz programs. Name the Star and Keep Going.