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,...