Radio: New Commentator

When the going is easy, he is the spieling image of his father. When the going is tough, he is only the eldest son—but even then Jimmy Roosevelt is an able speaker with a pleasant voice and good diction. Last week, on the grounds that he had inherited enough of his father’s magic to hold down a regular news commentator assignment, two small California stations signed him for a five-a-week schedule. (Both stations, Los Angeles’ KLAC and San Francisco’s KYA, are owned by the New Dealing, New York Post-publishing Thackreys.)

Jimmy Roosevelt will write his own 15-minute scripts, stealing time here & there from his successful insurance and color-film businesses, and from his political activities. California Democrats earnestly hope that there will be an increasing amount of the old F.D.R. radio magic on the 6:45 p.m. spots.