Big, determinedly friendly Norman Brokenshire, who has been on radio almost as long as static, has lost his faith in his trade only once. In 1926, after two years as a staff announcer on New York's WJZ, he left radio for vaudeville, convinced that "as time goes on, the announcer's role will become less & less important." That was the first of more than a dozen exits from the industryand the only voluntary oneduring the quarter-century in which convivial Norman Brokenshire has fought his well-publicized battle with alcohol.
Brokenshire's latest comeback to radio appears to be sticking. It began with an announcing...