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"Take it easy" Is a family motto for George, Betty, sons Doug and David.
He catches the 10:25 (A.M.!) train home in time to help with marketing.
Trina's usually the friskier Afghan, all-white Tammy's a retired champion.
SOIVIE LIKE I
To praise WABC^s George Skinner, just say he's set music back twenty years
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THERE ARE four things people want in the morning, according to George Skinner. They're news, weather, time and music. These George provides over Station WABC, Monday through Saturday from six to nine — and there isn't a gimmick or alter voce to be heard. "There are lots of people," says Skinner, "who like it straight." The music is in the mood that Glenn MiUer and Benny Goodman set from 1935 to 1950. "The greatest compliment anyone can pay me," says George, "is to say that I've set music back twenty years." . . . Born in Oregon, reared in Ohio, George slants his New York show toward the more relaxed mood of the Midwest, where it's the personality and not the format that counts. "You can't be agin anything but sin and Communism," laughs George. With the Midwest still in his voice, he says, "I don't worry about boners. I figure that if I misread the time, the guy listening has probably done the same thing in his day." . . . George is just what the doctor ordered, and he might very well have been that doctor if it hadn't been for an embalmed cat. One look — and whiff — at his first dissection in a pre-med course persuaded George that his inclination toward writing was the one to follow. He became "a dedicated reporter" — and went to jail for it. When the cornerstone of a new jail turned up missing, George uncovered it. Refusing to reveal the sources of his information, he became the jail's first guest. . . . Reporting led to news announcing, then to other radio and TV chores making fuU use of George's knack for good talk. George, whose past experiences include We The People, Candid Camera and Today, would like to add news and special events to his schedule again. He's making headway in that direction on Skinner Spotlight. He hopes "someday" to get a couple of novels and plays down on paper. . . . Aside from constructing sentences, George actually constructs — such things as a new wing on his Riverside, Connecticut home and a variety of tables and cabinets. With wife Betty and their two sons, Doug, 10, and David, 5, George leads a quiet, comfortable life that is a far cry from "the Connecticut country-club set." "Don't ever tell people about how hard I work," George says. "The guy who shovels coal can't feel sorry for someone who just sits at a mike. Actually, it's a pretty easy life."