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Lot of Four Signatures of Radio Commentators

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:19.00 USD Estimated At:75.00 - 100.00 USD
Lot of Four Signatures of Radio Commentators
<B>Lot of Four Signatures of Radio Commentators,</B></I> on cards, mounted with a brief biographical sketch, including: <B>Drew Pearson</B></I> (1897-1969) one of the most prominent American newspaper and radio journalists of his day. He was best known for his muckraking syndicated newspaper column "Washington Merry-Go-Round"; <B>Walter Winchell</B></I> (1897- 1972), an American newspaper and radio commentator, invented the gossip column at the <I>New York Evening Graphic.</B></I> He broke the journalistic taboo against exposing the private lives of public figures, permanently altering the shape of journalism and celebrity; <B>Grantland Rice</B></I> (1880-1954) an early 20th century American sportswriter best-known as being the writer who dubbed the great backfield of the Notre Dame team of 1924 the "Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame, a Biblical reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; <B>Lowell Thomas</B></I> (1892-1981) an American writer, broadcaster, and traveller, best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. During the 1920s, he was a magazine editor. In 1930, he became a broadcaster with the CBS radio network. After two years, he switched to the NBC radio network but returned to CBS in 1947. He hosted the first-ever television-news broadcast in 1930 and the first regularly scheduled news broadcast on television in 1940. His signature sign-on was "Good evening, everybody" and his sign-off "So long, until tomorrow." He authored fifty-six volumes.Very fine.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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