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■ Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as she chats informolly every Tuesday and Thursday at 1:15 P.M., over the NBC-Red network.
■ Right, Mr. and Mrs. Don Anneche dine at Giro's. It may be their last night out until the expected new Anrieche arrives.
A whole month ahead of the baby's arrival they moved into a new and larger apartment; Bill must be figuring on giving his first-born plenty of room for vocalizing in preparation for a possible radio future.
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Deanna Durbin's movie bosses, Universal Pictures, are denying vigorously the rumor that Deanna has signed a contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company, as printed here last month.
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CHARLOTTE, N. C— A voice and an appearance that go together like corn beef goes with cabbage make up the personality of Bill Bivens, ace WBT announcer. The voice is a rich baritone, the appearance is husky, handsome and cheerful, and together they bring pleasure to many a WBT listener. Besides his air duties. Bill is in frequent demand for personal appearances.
It's only 25 years since Bill was born in Wadesboro, North Carolina, but out of those 25 years more than a dozen have been spent in radio. When he was only thirteen he owned and operated his own radio station W4BCW, and he wasn't much older when he landed a job as actor on WRBU, in the nearby town
AUGUST, 1940
By DAN SENSENEY
of Gastonia. Before coming to WBT in 1937 he worked for WFBC in Greenville, South Carolina, and for WJSV in Washington (where, incidentally, he was called "Baby Bill," a name certainly ipf— ■i^e'^ ^'>~his youth rather than his size, since he's six feet tail and broad-shouidered).
At WBT he announces many special events, and also is master of ceremonies on his own sponsored farm program. In his spare time he's a true outdoorsman. An excellent shot, he likes to hunt, and knows so much about firearms that his friends have turned him into an amateur gunsmith. Fishing, camping, and all sorts of outdoor life appeal to him. He even has a dog that's a college graduate — a setter that he sent as a puppy to a dog training college in Georgia. The training course took eight months, but then the dog was given a real diploma, with ribbons, to prove that he's one of the best-trained hunting dogs in Carolina.
Bill isn't superstitious, which he proves by putting on a special broadcast whenever Friday the thirteenth rolls around. In front of the microphone he breaks mirrors, walks under ladders, lets black cats cross his path, steps on sidewalk
Irene Rich, star of Glorious One, makes friends with a colt on the famous W. K. Kellogg Ranch.
cracks — and gets big heaps of fan mail.
His popularity on the air keeps him busy filling personal appearance en {Continued on page 74)
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