Adventures of harry nile radio shows1/14/2024 ![]() On his completion of the course, Jim was sent to Japan as part of the occupation forces. Jim joined the Army in August of that year and after several weeks of training, the military decided, in its strange and convoluted wisdom, to send the student whose math grades in high school weren’t anything to make his parents proud to artillery school, where a good working knowledge of mathematics was essential. ![]() However, as happened, in 1946 Uncle Sam had other plans. It was a start and, as far as Jim was concerned, a sure way to the meccas of Los Angeles or New York. Somewhere around 1944, he managed to wrangle a spot on local station KXLA as a as a piano player on a kiddie show. He was going to be a big-time national network voice. ![]() He was determined that was where his future lay, as the man he heard between programs saying “This is the NBC Network” (or CBS, Mutual or Mutual Don Lee). He would spend hours in front of a mirror in the bathroom, because of the acoustics, reading articles from magazines and newspapers, pretending to be the announcer or reporter he heard every night coming through the loudspeaker of the family’s large walnut-cased family console radio. From an early age, he was fascinated by the medium of radio. 23, 1928, in the Southern California town of San Gabriel to James Forrest and Mabelle Rowley French. ![]()
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