Cedric Adams Publication 25 YRS Radio Newspaper WCCO Star Tribune - Excellent

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Cedric Adams 48-page publication celebrating 25 years with radio and newspaper including WCCO Radio and Star Tribune - Excellent Condition and includes original protective envelope. See photos for actual condition. Shipped with via USPS in a rigid hard envelope.
For thirty years Cedric Adams was the best known voice in the Upper Midwest. He was already a successful journalist when he took his first job in radio, a small dramatic role on WCCO Minneapolis/Saint Paul in 1931. He made his first newscast for WCCO in September 1934. He soon became an institution, reporting the news and hosting such programs as Stairway to Stardom, The Phillips 66 Talent Parade, and Dinner at the Adams', often even broadcasting from his home or his boat on Lake Minnetonka. With the coming of television, he substituted for his friend Arthur Godfrey as host of Talent Scouts, appeared live from his home on Edward R. Murrow's Person to Person, and did newscasts for WCCO TV Minneapolis/Saint Paul, all while still writing his daily newspaper column and doing twenty radio shows each week. Pilots claimed that they could see the lights go out all across the region promptly each night after he signed off his 10:00 p.m. newscast. His death, at the age of 58, on February 18, 1961 shocked and saddened his legions of viewers and listeners, for whom his warmth, humor, and gregarious, folksy style personified WCCO's image as "GoodNeighbor to the Northwest."