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A touch of the Orient — actress Miiko Taka and Somezuro, an authentic Geisha girl, visit with Tom on Give 'N Take.
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Winning the $1,000 "wild guess" jackpot on KYWTV's quiz game, Give 'N Take, was a little too much for the pleasant, somewhat plump lady. She gasped for breath and almost fainted. Undaunted, the show's host, Tom Haley, ad-libbed while helping her regain her equilibrium. An embarrassing moment was turned into a humorous interlude. Handling the unexpected is the forte of the flame -haired Irishman who is as customary as the morning cup of coffee for many Northern Ohioans. In fact, many of his lady fans wouldn't take their morning break at any other time than 10 to 10:30 weekdays, when Tom throws sticky questions at contestants on Give 'N Take. Next to an ever-present bow tie and an attractive family of six girls, the most distinctive thing about this genial forty-one-year-old expatriate from Brooklyn is his ability to "switch gears" easily and rapidly in this hectic, exciting world of TV. Announcer, deejay, newsman, host and quizmaster — these are just a few of the radio and television roles Tom has played successfully in his twenty-year career in broadcasting. And it all started in a way that sounds suspiciously like something out of the first chapter of a "How to Turn Failure into Success" book: He got fired from his first job! As secretary (actually one of a battery of young men) to one of New York's richest men, twenty-year-old Tom Haley was "wasting away." He had become an errand-runner and note-taker for the wealthy tycoon when a reversal in the family fortunes took him out of
Fordham University after two years of journalism study. But his heart wasn't in the paper -work. The boredom of this routine, workaday life was broken, each lunchtime, by a quick hop across the street to gape at Radio City. His true feelings did not escape the perceptive eye of his employer, who suggested kindly but firmly that, since he was so bored, perhaps he should look for a job elsewhere. He did — and became a page at NBC, the traditional entree to broadcasting. . . . After a year of treading the magic corridors at NBC, Tom got his first radio break — a job as announcer at an Allentown, Pennsylvania station. He began doing everything and anything that needed doing, starting from the ground up — a major chore was sweeping out the studios each night. "Despite the hard work, this is the only way really to learn about broadcasting," he reflects. "The experience of doing so many different things is so valuable and can't really be learned any other way." . . . After a brief stint as an announcer at WRC, in Washington, he went to Cleveland in 1945 and joined radio Station WTAM. He was, at one time or other, a deejay (with a top-rated morning record show featuring homey humor and, of all things, poetry reading!), newscaster, actor, announcer and host. . . . When WNBK (TV), sister-station to WTAM, began operating in 1952, a new vista opened up for Tom. He became a pioneer innovator of television technique. His daily hour-long show, Haley's Daily, amused, entertained and edified viewers with homespun comments,