Radio: Old Standby

For the past year, radio's Tex McCrary has been looking at television with a speculative eye. An A.A.F. lieutenant colonel (he jumped with paratroops into France) and ex-newsman (chief editorial writer of the New York tabloid Mirror), McCrary was confident that he could survive TV's headaches. He was also shrewd enough to know that he had a TV asset in his pretty brunette wife Jinx Falkenburg, onetime model and cinemactress, who shares his over-the-breakfast-table radio show.

McCrary figured that the TV audience was ready for something different from the vaudeville routines offered by the Hooperating leaders (Milton Berle, Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan)....

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