Radio: Hi-Yo Bond!

His cry rings loud upon the air; He rides through storm and strife.

He foils foul villains everywhere To sell the staff of life.

The identity of the hero of this hell-for-leather ballad stumped the Information Please experts a few Tuesdays back, but hundreds of thousands of radio fans, young and old, could instantly have whooped out his name — The Lone Ranger! Hi-Yo, Silver!

On behalf of 36 radio sponsors, 29 of them bakers of bread, cake and biscuits, the Lone Ranger rides his imaginary mount, Silver, over a vast radio range of 129 stations, including one in Honolulu and one in Sydney,...

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