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Compton, Walter (birth name was Walter Knobeloch) Born in Charleston, South Carolina 10/9/1912; died 12/9/1959. Compton began his radio career in 1936. He was an announcer at WOL-Washington, WHN-New York Emcee for Double Or Nothing on Mutual-Radio (1940-1943). Anchor for DuMont-TV's first news show in 1947 (Walter Compton and The News). From the late 1940s to the late 1950s he was associated with television stations of WAAM-Baltimore and WTTV-Washington.

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Quizmaster on radio including Foolish Questions (1936); Fun Quiz (1936); Quixie Doodles on Mutual (1938); Name Three on Mutual (1939-1940); Take It Or Leave It on CBS (1940-1941); How'm I Doin'? on CBS and NBC (1942) and Thanks To The Yanks (1942), which evolved into The Bob Hawk Show on CBS (1945-1953). During Arthur Godfrey's illness in 1946, Hawks was host of Godfrey's shows on CBS. For several years before he retired, he was associated with The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

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Hawk, Bob (birth name was Robert M. Hawk) Born in Creston, Iowa 12/15/1907; died 7/4/1989 in Laguna Hills, California. Educated at Southwestern College in Oklahoma, Bush Conservatory in Chicago and Horner Conservatory in Kansas. He began his career as a teacher, but his mother encouraged him to become an actor, and in 1926 he began a broadcasting career reading poetry on a Chicago station. Shortly he became an announcer on Chicago radio stations of WBBM; WCFL; WJJD. In 1931, he was host of a local record program called Red Hot and Lowdown.

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 + Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "From the descriptions, identify the following professions: a pointed beard with a moustache." The system cue has been deleted.

Apr.25.1939

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