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WHAT'S MY LINE
Funnyman Hal Block has spent most of his career years writing gags for other comedians — but What's My Line gave the wicked Mr. Block his first opportunity to deliver his own jokes. A Chicagoan, the son of Max Block, a lawyer, Hal originally intended to follow in his dad's footsteps. He attended Western Reserve Military Academy and the University of Chicago. He was associate editor of the University's humor magazine, and captain of the 1935 track team. Law was abandoned when Block fell in with Phil Baker and talked him into giving him a job on his gagwriting staff At that time, Baker was breaking people up on the radio with the team Bottle and Beetle. From that time on, Block wrote gags for the top comics in show business — Berle, Burns and Allen, Bob Hope, and others. During the war he went overseas for USO.
John Daly
Hal Block
Keeper of the contestants' secrets on What's My Line is John Daly, creator and moderator of the shenanigans. John began his career two years after graduating from Boston College, as a relief announcer at a Washington station. Three weeks later (this was in 1937) he moved to CBS as an announcer, soon landing an assignment in Special Events. In 1938, Daly became Presidential announcer for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Other news assignments followed, taking Daly to some of the most history-making events in the war decade. Included among some of his war assignments Were the fall of Messina, the bombing of Cassino, and the surrender of the Italian fleet at Malta. After the war, he covered the Nuremburg Trials, the Berlin Airlift and the recent political conventions in Chicago. Away from the studios, John enjoys reading and plays some golf and tennis. He is married to the former Margaret Criswell Neal, and they live in suburban Rye, New York. The Dalys have three children, John Neal, thirteen, John Charles IV, and Helene Grant ("Buntsy"), aged five. What's My Line provides an enjoyable comic relief for John after the serious business of being a news analyst most of the time. He keeps his panel and his audience happy, and takes a firm hand with the "precocious" Mr. Block.
What's My Line is heard on Wednesday at 9 :30 P.M. EST over CBS Radio, and viewed on Sundays at 10:30 P.M. EST, over CBS-TV, for Stopette (Jules Montenier, Inc.),
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