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- PEOPLE, Page 66For Rhyme And Reason
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by Jeannie Park
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- On the radio, it's almost as if you can hear Charles
- Osgood's bow tie. It's in the voice, the wit, the way he makes
- the news rhyme. In fact, the bard of CBS News radio once taught
- an on-air caller how to tie a bow. But it is the verse that
- remains Osgood's trademark. Writing poems, he says, "has become
- part of my shtick." Take this classic, for example: "Jiang
- Qing/ Is a mean old thing/ And she had a Gang of Four./ And
- China is very lucky/ That she's carrying on no more." Last week,
- when Osgood won the Washington Journalism Review's Best in the
- Business award for radio reporting the second year in a row, he
- wrote part of his acceptance speech in rhyme. For him, radio
- will always have it over TV. "I think radio is a more visual
- medium," he says. "It uses the theater of the mind. The TV
- picture is only as good as your reception." He adds, "Without
- question, I look better on radio." So does the tie.
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