
Author: Staff
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Diana Lewis and Herman McKalpain – Christmas
Diana Lewis and Herman McKalpain [Facebook] – Photo credit ?????
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Herman McKalpain and Nelson Burg at WXYZ Party
WXYZ: Over the course of decades, there were always parties. The parties built many friendships between co-workers and helped create an environment in the 1980s-90s that made the station number one in the market.
Herman McKalpain and Nelson Burg – Original photo from the Terry Pochert retirement collection.
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A Collector of Rare Books
As the story goes…
A Collector of rare books ran into an acquaintance who told him he had just thrown away an old Bible that he found in a dusty, old box. He happened to mention that Guten – or somebody-or-other had printed it. Not Gutenberg? – gasped the collector. Yes, that was it! “You idiot! You’ve thrown away one of the first books ever printed. A copy recently sold at auction for half a million dollars!”
“Oh, I don’t think this book would have been worth anything close to that much,” replied the man. “It was scribbled all over in the margins by some guy named Martin Luther.”
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Goin’ Steady – WXYZ Variety Show
Betty Clooney, Leonard Standley and his orchestra and The Four Freshman – Billboard – October 18, 1952, Page 15
Betty Clooney, Speedway Petroleum Corporation, Floyd Rice Ford Agency, Grand River Chevrolet, W.B. Doner Agency – Billboard, January 17, 1953, Page 10