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- May 30, 1994: Died:Henry Morgan
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- May 30, 1994 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 21
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- <p> DIED. HENRY MORGAN, 79, radio satirist; in New York City. Born
- Henry Lerner von Ost, Morgan was said to be the youngest radio
- announcer in America when he began working in 1933 at 18. In
- the polite world of broadcasting, he became known for aggressively
- impertinent, ad-libbed satire that led to his own network program
- by the '40s. After the opening words, "Good evening, anybody,
- here's Morgan," anything was fair game--even his advertisers.
- The Adler Shoe Co. suffered through the satirist's observation,
- "These elevator shoes will make you almost two inches taller
- than she is. You, of course, will still be a klutz." Life Savers
- candies withdrew its sponsorship after he denounced the famous
- hole-in-the-middle as "unethical." Such unrestrained irreverence
- led to his blacklisting by red hunters during the '50s , but
- Morgan eventually returned, on television, as a regular guest
- on the urbane game shows What's My Line? and I've Got a Secret.
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