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Show Horace Heldt taking his 80-mem-Ler radio-tv troupe eround the world tlu's April on greatest entertainment junket ever scheduled. He will travel 35,000 miles in 2 months, entertaining entertain-ing CI's and producing his CBS radio-tv shows at U.S. bases overseas. ' Johnny Olsen celebrating his 20th anniversary in radio. The emcee of the daily "Lunclieon'Club" (ABC) where you meet America's mot interesting in-teresting people started on a rural station where he did every chore, including sweeping out the studio. Patrick McVev. who stars as newspaperman Steve Wilson on the "Big Town-CBS. Town-CBS. TV pro. I gram was born on March 17. St. Patrick's Day. Ralph Ed wards, who initiated radio's first big giveaway on "Truth or Consequences" ed television s first giant jackpot with thousands of dollars in prizes offered on 'T or C. CBS-TV. Dizzy Dean, hunting and golfing his way across the South before re turning to the Yankee Stadium to resume his tv eportscasting. Hedda Hopper's (NBC) choice of future movie stars has proved 89 accurate to date. When Walter Kiernan (ABC) was inducted as President of Circus, Saint and Sinners, he sent the following fol-lowing wire: "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DO NOT CARE TO BE A MEMBER OF ANY ORGANIZATION THAT WOULD HAVE ME AS PRESI-DENT." PRESI-DENT." 'Modern Romances' show (ABC) is giving daytime radio a new boost with its realistic approach. Critics rate it the "most imitated program on the air. 'Big Town' NBC radio show nominated once again for National Safety Council and Sloan Awards. It won both last year. Trty Friend Irma' (CBS) cast going full steam ahead with movie careers. Marie Wilson, John Brown and Alan Reed will appear in a totsl ten films in the next year. Oldest and prcbsbly best known of all radio discussion programs pro-grams is the American Forum of the Air, now hetid Sundays oter 166 fl'BC stations. |