5 Details About U.S. Broadcaster Paul Harvey

5 Details About U.S. Broadcaster Paul Harvey

Russia Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:46pm EST
FACTBOX-Five facts about U.S. broadcaster Paul Harvey
Feb 28 5 info about famed U.S. radio commentator Paul Harvey, who died on Saturday at the age of 90:
He was born Paul Harvey Aurandt in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Sept. 14, 1918. He was solely three when his father, a Tulsa policeman, was killed within the line of duty.
Harvey's interest in radio began as a boy when he would construct toy radio sets. He was 14 years old when he started working as an announcer at KVOO-AM in Tulsa.
Harvey started broadcasting nationwide in 1951. At his peak, he had about 22 million listeners on some 1,300 stations.
Harvey proposed marriage to Lynne Cooper a couple of minutes into their first date but she did not accept till a few year later. Nicknamed "Angel" by Harvey, she turned his longtime producer. She died last yr.
Discussing the commercials he learn for merchandise during his present, Harvey once told an interviewer, "Without advertising in this country, my goodness, we'd nonetheless be on this country what Russia largely nonetheless is: a nation of bearded bicyclists with B.."
Because of his early broadcast schedule, Harvey's work regimen known as for him to arise at 3:30 a.m. and go to mattress at 6:30 p.m. (Writing by Bill Trott; Enhancing by Peter Cooney)
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