KGO Radio, San Francisco
Walter Winchell
May 1942
A photograph of famed newspaper and radio gossip
columnist Walter Winchell ("Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America and all
the ships at sea. Let's go to press!") at the KGO Blue Network
microphone, at left, with Major Harry Martin, whose wife was the
Hollywood gossip maven Louella Parsons.
The cut sheet for the photograph, affixed to the back,
reads:
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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WALTER WINCHELL WAS
GREETED BY MAJOR HARRY MARTIN, OF THE USS. ARMY MEDICAL
STAFF ATTACHED TO LETTERMAN HOSPITAL, AT SAN FRANCISCO'S
PRESIDIO HEADQUARTERS OF THE FOURTH ARMY COMMAND, FOLLOWING
WINCHELL'S COAST-TO-COAST NEWS BROADCAST, THE FIRST TO COME
FROM THE KGO-BLUE NETWORK STUDIOS AT SAN FRANCISCO'S NEW
RADIO CITY. MAJOR MARTIN, WHOSE WIFE IS THE NOTED HOLLYWOOD
COLUMNIST, LOUELLA PARSONS, IS AIDING NEW YORK'S COLUMNIST
WINCHELL IN ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PRESENCE OF MANY FILM AND
RADIO STARS ON THE HUGE U.S. NAVY RELIEF SHOW AT THE CIVIC
AUDITORIUM, TUESDAY, MAY 19th. |
SOURCE: Robert Crawford
photograph, Bay Area Radio Museum Collection.
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