Stan writes:

I was the Morning jock and Program Director in 1958-59. Mac Richmond and I became friends...in fact I think I'm the only dude to work for all of his stations...Las Vegas, D.C. and Boston (WMEX) where I was the morning newsguy.

I was in Vegas doing the morning drive show. Mac Richmond came out after I had been there a few months and fired everyone. But he had taken a liking to me for some reason and asked me if I'd like to go to his DC station.

I was at WPGC about a year but can't remember when they named me Program Director. I think Dean Griffith (Dean Anthony) was named Program Director by Bob Howard when I left for Baltimore.

I think I started in mornings then moved to afternoons with the Program Director promotion. That's when we kicked off the 'Dudley F. Dudley' morning news with Eliot Paul.

On Elliot Paul and 'Dudley F. Dudley':

I hired Eliot Paul to do our morning news and told him to call himself 'Dudley F. Dudley' and use a British accent, which he did very well. It was fun.

On Jerry Kearns:

Jerry Kearns' grandmother ran Blair House, the Presidential guest home across from the White House. I remember going down to the Blair House with Jerry and spending the weekends in the feather beds on the top floor where the service stayed when Kings, Queens and Presidents came to visit. Ike had Cuban cigars in the kitchen freezer! We washed our cars out in back. I remember spending hours in the Senate gallery watching JFK (already running for President). Sometimes both he and Nixon were in there at the same time.

On "Mr. PG":

The 'Mr. PG'story is a radio classic. Mac Richmond fired someone but let him work a few days more. He took the 'Mr. PG' promo which stated, "If 'Mr. PG', Color Radio approaches you on the street, show
your support. 'Mr. PG' is walking the streets for crippled children. The guy edited the words "color" and "crippled" and changed the promo which ran for hours before someone caught it to,"Support 'Mr. PG', crippled radio, walking the streets for "color" children". They tell me Mac had his first mild attack when he heard it.

On The FM:

Mac Richmond waddled in to the studio one day bemoaning the cost of the power bill to keep running WPGC-FM (remember this was in the late 50's so nobody even knew what FM radio was.) He said he'd sell the FM to me for $100,000! I told him I didn't have the money...he said I should call my folks. He said I could put $10,000 down and get it. What's it worth today?

 

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