Paul harvey stories of success

It ran all over the country. Paul Harvey was the announcer. He did two other daily broadcasts that, if you ever heard them, you will never forget them-- the way he wrote, the way he sounded. Hello, Americans. This is Paul Harvey. Stand by for news. My first job in Chicago, making stories for NPR, my windows at the NPR Chicago bureau looked out over a section of East Wacker Drive that was called Paul Harvey Drive, which I loved, thinking that somewhere not far from where I was sitting Paul Harvey had been up since in the morning, pounding out his scripts on an electric typewriter.

Life Passion & Business

At his height, he was on over 1, radio stations, which, by the way, is more stations than NPR has-- just a massive audience, 24 million. His daily show, Paul Harvey News and Comment, was the day's news delivered like brisk radio poetry with some folksy humor or some conservative opinion. But his show The Rest of the Story is what I want to talk about today.

Typical episode, just jumps into the action. Now is the winter of Ted's discontent. You can see the frustration, even the anger in his face and in his gait as he stalked down Madison Avenue that blustery morning. He had thought himself, hoped himself a book author, a poet. But the great publishers of New York, New York had repeatedly demonstrated the error of his ways.

I have to say, listening to Paul Harvey makes me feel like I need to go back to radio school.