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Show FLOYD GIBBONS TALKS OVER RADIO 180 WORDS A MINUTE Floyd Gibbons can probably out-talk any woman in the world mothers-in-law not excepted. The linguistic speed demon of the air hurls his messages through the microphone at the rate of 180 words a minute. "I've seen Floyd Gibbons time and again on his Headline Hunter series, which ran for a half hour, end his talk on the second, without with-out cutting a word from the script," writes Larry Rue in the current issue of Liberty Magazine. Maga-zine. "His speed averages 180 words a minute. "Except for the orchestra programs pro-grams from hofels, all the script is looked over by a production manager, who will time the rate of speaking so closely that even a half hour's talk will end within five seconds of the time allotted. "Kenneth MacCregor is the production manager of the Na-:ional Na-:ional Broadcasting Company when Gibbons broadcasts. He sits beside the speaker and has each page of script marked to the second. sec-ond. If Mr. Gibbons is either ahead or behind on a page, he speeds or slows him with a motion of the hand." |
