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CAL
the COLORFUL
orld travel and a residence on millionaire row in Tulsa hasn't changed him. The fact that he's written for three national magazines and that his syndicated newspaper column has been read by millions doesn't impress him. It's true he's been heard on three AM networks and a television network — but the homespun humor and whimsical philosophies heard on The Cal Tinney Show on ABC and NBC are as much a part of the real Cal Tinney as the large hat he wears.
He wrote his first column in the New York Post in 1934 "on a subject that has stuck to me for a good many years — my underwear." His first broadcast on his new morning series, The Cal Tinney Show which originates in the KRMG studios in Tulsa, was on "how to catch a husband."
Cal was born in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, and, as a youngster, he walked eight miles to school. At high school in Tulsa, he wrote for the local papers, but after five long years, he failed to graduate.
Since then, his life has been a series of adventures. He worked his way around the world — leaving with seventeen dollars and returning in two years with three cents. In Germany, despite
Author, lecturer, columnist, commentator — Cal's no slouch.
his ignorance of the country, he worked as a tourist guide; in Paris he got a job on the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune "changing over the fancy words in the English newspapers so's American tourists 'd be able to understand them. You know, 'elevator' for 'lift,' 'janitor,' for 'caretaker'— that sort of thing."
Back in the states, after a stint as secretary to a Congressman, Cal decided to go to college. At the University of Oklahoma, it took them less than a year to discover that he hadn't finished high school and he was promptly asked to leave.
Recently, when Cal moved to his twenty-room mansion, he brought with him a hen and her thirteen baby chicks which he put into an abandoned dog house. Rats got into the dog house and disturbed the chickens so Cal let them run around his expansive grounds. Ordinarily, white fowl on the green lawns of Tulsa cause little comment because many yards are decorated with statues of ducks, but consternation reigned on millionaire row when one of Cal's neighbors brought her limousine to an abrupt halt in front of the Tinney manse and, staring in wild-eyed amazement shouted, "My G — , they're moving!"
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KRMG humorist Tinney and family— Cal, Maxine (Mrs. Cal), David, Lon, Scott and Linda Lee— stand inspection.
The Cal Tinney Show is heard M-F on NBC at 10:30 A. M., EST and on ABC at 7:15 A. M.. CST.