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X" MARKS HIS SPOT
Music does the talking for him as John A . Gambling carries on a family tradition on WOR and the Mutual Network
Alike? Yes. Different? Yes again. John A. has learned much from John B., but each Gambling is an individual.
I ike father, like son — except that in the Gambling ■ radio dynasty, father is an early bird, son is night owl. Between them, they've got birds of every feather nocking to their radios. . . . John B. Gambling has been on the air for thirty -two years of morning music, news, weather, conversation and, as oldtimers may remember, exercise. John A. Gambling made his world debut in New York, on February 5, 1930. His radio debut came four years later on his dad's show, when the younger Gambling recited "The Night Before Christmas" and sang "Away in a Manger." The Christmas visit became an annual event, then was supplemented by scattered appearances throughout the year. In 1953, the two Gamblings started appearing as a team on all the morning shows. Now that John A. is filling the nights with music on his own program, he's presented his father with two still younger Gamblings to take his place on those annual Christmas visits — his son John R., age six, and daughter Anne, age four and called "Missy." ... As to following in a famous father's footsteps, John A. says: "The idea is not to try to fill the shoes of your father — in this case unfillable, I think — but to keep your own shoes as filled as possible." . . . John, ordinarily a very well-shod, personable and vocal young man, does this by keeping absolutely mum for a half -hour at a time. Music does his talking for him on Music From Studio X, heard Monday through Saturday from 9 P.M. to 1 A.M. on WOR and from 10 P.M. to 12: 45 A.M. EST on the Mutual network. When John does speak, it's briefly, quietly and to the point. During his periods of silence, he keeps busy planning more of the same, "familiar" music, mostly instrumental and midway between the over-lush and the over-commercial. . . . As a boy, John toyed with the idea of becoming a policeman or a fireman or perhaps a doctor. Mostly though, he was fascinated by radio and he and his wife Sally — originally a blind date for a friend of John's — have placed radios in every room of their colonial house in Manhasset, Long Island. The rest of the furnishings were found on safaris to New England and Pennsylvania and refinished by John, whose hobby is finding new uses for old antiques. As on radio, "The key is good taste."
Looks like a telephone, but actually "Missy" is listening to a radio. The "busy signal" is, as usual, the menfolk, John R. and John A., waiting for the womenfolk, Missy and Sally.