"The sky tomorrow," declared Manhattan's WOR weatherman, "will be cloudy and overcast." Then he added, "or, as the French would put it, triste."
Most radio weather news is read directly from the teletype in brief, dry spells at intervals throughout the day. But not the nightly (11:25 p.m.) comments of WOR's Nemo.* Nemo reads the U.S. Weather Bureau prediction, then follows it with a scientifically sound but slightly rhapsodic analysis of his own. By last week he had attracted thousands of enthusiastic listeners.
The voice of Nemo belongs to a studio announcer (Phil...
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