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THURSDAY, JULY'11h2th 1945'
Toronto. For a split second i was
,transfixed; ,half -raised from the
floor on my fingertips. Then 1
rated: to. the telephone and called
The ;Globe. Feverishly .1 asked for
Ar die and Was told by the. 'quiet.
girl. operator; `I'm sorry, Mr.
Clark is on 'the air'.
•in readiness for .his Sunday .morn-
Ten'o'clock sof a Sunday morn Ling• :spell at the microphone• By.
:ing .is . no time to go knocking'' that- time •he has a roomful of
on the door • of a farmhouse •
' crumpled - newspapers and. an av-
in
Ontario or -Quebec .Not"�tliat. the',p .: p erage. of, thirty items;
country :folk' are breakfasting • or ; ' includiiii;
i erha s a ;homey poen �i or a time-.
getting ready for ,church.No, i 1Y, editorial, • plus erhas.fifteen
.perhaps p
they're clustered. around the radio .names for:`what he scalls his 'Oven: -
listening ta; a voice ..that .sounds'. Ninety Birthday Club • Andy:
• as if it . came right ' from their II would never miss cl eeking one:.
own 'back concessions though it' of the weeklies.`for fear he' might
,really
.Picked.. up its mellowness ; slight a ;',onagenarian who nas
in, the noisy Clatter cif; Toronto's' just h!ad birthday party..
1oviver Yonge street Recti Fp ' see, who produces the.
• From the lush' . acres own. a- broadcast; ;says—Andy'-s� voice h -as=
round• Granby, Quebec, to ,the' none , of t
- lusi-ered fern.is-e-Algomlfess one
one. of Sunday' morning's • `rousts' he; puts 'h
.is ta,,=.liste i in on Andy Clarke ,that so.m
Stephen' Fod i
"I must have, yelled at her that'
T line. C. -'he "was ori the air D>it'
that he didn't know it—that he
must get off the. air' fast -tout;
they must tell hird. 1 hung up
• 1Vlany a. story about.` Andy 'two -room apartment, in ,cent,r t .
i daughter Marie'b i�r;
in the smoky rooms of the 'ror- overseas with, the Wids and iris:
onto Press Club. $> it: nowadays' son Fred is in the Canadian. Navtr:
his broadcasts are .different; more He considers his, grandd iughtc>r,
easy-going, with no •pressure of Diane, nearing two, "just lover",
a, newspaper deadline • to worry He works at' night,, probably h),.
him while he's doing, the job. Th'' cause of his thirty years or .:i
sixty -two-year-old former news morning newspaper.: He. has had
editor of The Globe is stili huzlcia
dozens of offers to take z,, -,:
his following. He can't spored ;broadcasts or do ispec Al
;:'up o ins -for fishing . eamp�;-t=.•-•'
to a filial
station 'in
pr• 1
Ontario.. He thinks them over 'Aid '?
'alway. makes. tkie same; deciSa,n;
which is really" a Daps t1e sty:.. -;
rnar-V- cif""the plhilosc�flhv the ! ::_ -,1
ft ac nil
ri�ti,rlr 111 t't1 �"� pally:,
_ ... awl:. � �-.wr.,.sz--
Andy. Olarke?" Theme g "QVell, i'd, like to ¢do it•:k)• ut ,%, R'
station, man, will ask h ni, to wait t
'a minute ` wiiile he brings:Out his busy enough: There's .001t.,
o use �; ;,
ting^ too busy. f like time to thull; .:j
wife to meet': him. and' ICI get too. busy I'd l avf> try
Andy' ;is, a'. jovial, grey-hairedi .quit thinkng' 4I.t. wouldn't be g'vi�t:: 1
,widower .Who, lives `'alone in ''a, for me....
Clarke's .broadcasts. ' is still.told . Toronto.11!s _ . g i
drive up .
rtiral Ontario and a
a -dozen gallons, .of
he -•attendant• pricking
t,ulting it s°
tteatiug and dashed: taaGk tQ tom,.
�rli<� . fi,1 fi.tz�:. r1 ricly stifil. i l t,i•i*>
is sto ? , ' r•
_een soinew�iat extended.'•b ' ,the
flourishes t h a- t character i ze
Andy's telling; :In a : noment, iris
voice was cut .pff and. I fell back:
into;: a. chat'°':eas relieved as if' a
V-1 had whistled right• overhea:l
—and then continued• on'1 /: '
• for. half-
Fas without:
.atp,>�is-1'�rSx
at .him of ri
^1
r{,
,i.
:,
and his" Neighborly. News raid.dial, to h
=A� ,crackez•-barrel=> ��iatr= ,-come=chs
--fourteen .minutes a: week has. been voice i is t
on ,the air morethan. five yea' iricreases'"by the thousands each
ha d running,.longer• than any' year:: An , hisi.<clearly-articulated
other talker in.Canada except rural drawl .haas a mystenibus
quality that tma''kes deaf and near'-
e glibness of the pro-
i�mxritathr. and' there
s •finger• ori' the.' reason'
ny *city ,people. turn the
broadcast for a we-
e i;Qa`son .. iris audience;
alhousie University`s Professor
Stewart, who has 1eeri:` on the ioli
almost ten::
An • increasing; number, of c!ty;
folk ' are tuning in on ,the 'kindly
and slightly husky. voiceof
former 'newspaperman' but he still -
beams • his broadcast right ''' at thL.
farm and. the.small "town He,.:'
makes it a rieviw of the interest'
ing.' things: that people ,do -and
plan` and -think :about--in-those rrfl
portant pats ,of .Ontario and-Que-
becthat -lie outside the- cities.
Andy's Fan Mail
deaf w 116 to say they hear lura.
clear as a:..bel.
Andy. Clarke;, ,was trio •newcornet�
to the•air\when.'he started:Neigh
borly\ News. For five, years he
had gon:e,--di=i'-the .' a �ir--7witlr-•-the.
nightly newscast of .;the ;olds Tor
onto 'Globe,: which was amm
alga_,
ated. in 1936' with The .Globe-'`'&
Mail: of today",It was the regular
thing --for Toronto thew-spapernen-
to ,tune in' Onthe :Globe broadesst.
...o'clock _�:bef ore turnip_ g _an 1,
each night -They did it not only
$ack:Ami.lanuary,�I.9.A,4, the CBC I`fo1 the last minute•`news but be-.
f 'Andy's: homely
touch;--
ion w-rth theTitganadrar ek+y iso because occasionally g
son :.experiment_ in , rounding', up.. Clarke••
from- the- weekly ne-wspape 'urthe-Star is one of , Canada's best
week's-:happeriings in the towns,• known reporters and war cora e's
villages and:.: townships . of ' Oct- ppndents. 11e_ . is also , a • ecmterrr
tario;. _ Qin .the. , start it v'as an p. orary •of Andy's ,'•and occasion
unexpected hit, rolling up./:so ally his' fishing companion But,
listeners that it was. ex Greg is:, most. noted among the'
tended to include /Quebec ..and newsp*Per-"-eraft ;a atwinikhn- -
' identical . � •w: e e .k l`y `. 1Veighborl..�T eyed raconteur with °an unending
News broadcasts were started -'iii find of stories. Orbe of his storieo.
British Columbia, the Prairies •& about, Andy ,goes 1i1ce• this:
the; Maritimes. Old Andy'izow, re Andy"; Anecdotes
• ceives •probably the largest. con . "It used to: listen;to The. Glob',"q'
sisterit mail that goes', to 'any CBC news every night, lying on _thy:
c ' f floor ." With' the' Times Atlas ; ;i n
speaker',.,.•
.... ,�' ` e follow the .way. _ -o tter-„,..in_ flit`-ss_:.c_.ti front •of m to --r.
y .,,. . ._. re Ver..
• cal:' Once in -a while -:Andy ;,is _Ethiopia, or ';China' or ,v"trhe”
needled ,,for his heav,ily=Ontai;in the little wars of. ten"years:• ago
,t, :' uebec lace
proriunci:ation, of •� !� `p
names --or he might inadvertent-
ly•" overlook the news 'of a
legged calf at: Drurnmondvrlle ,or
. a' ;28 -pound ,rnuskie .at 'Scugog.1
:Lake. 'He takes such communica
tions with high philosophy "arid..'
c
,i
makes each of them an item ,mor
his ext wee
tai
n _ _ k _
'started the 'broadcast.rn. co-opei a- cause , o y
11 he ave
Newspaper-A$screia "tea:_} _them ;something to talk a __
Greer of `the ;c5rU f6
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used tp be.'Also ,I used, to •like, -
to,: hear. Andy's ' Slow.; drawl 'air d -
Off -hand delivery''and .the way
opened his broadcast. with :a
`Good .. ev -cling, 'tri'ends
friendly as if he hod just- walked,
fri on an .all-day-pbker-�, game:
.One night AndyP
ut'o
na
per-,
,
--feet:broadcast He-;didnt,ge.k=-iis
es mixed ; u didn't stumble'
�. al st° 0 1' -pas. �.,p� .U.
:gym yr,�...._ .
'the continentputs so 'mush time over any foreign names and Ever'
e , :...P . i .:'off :.a, ou teenL the.boy with the hockey: scores-
Minute',
corer
---M•..into •the,ypreparatio _'� �, r. b
broa'dc at. And. spends arrived .without Andi' having to
m
route : a �'
'."'t a first three nights of the week.. leave the ,mike .arid,; go. chasing
uffin at :his, pipe ,as„ he riffle's '•after,, him, T. was just lifting' ray-
' t , 0`' „�,published,in self when' Andy's.
' through '250 weeklies
English ; rn Ontario., and.:; Quebec. voice 'came over the air ,saying:
By the time ,he has scissored l,the `Well,. how was :that, Jack?'
- fifty or: so . Most- interesting ,1.ckcat . `:He Was still on his phone talk;
items,:.he .has decided, on the ing to Jack; Sharpe, whcs-handled'
angles he's • going -`to wont _Into -'the "rn'icrophone •-at-'tlae.-..radian sta-.
the nest S'unday's broadcast - - ( tion bili who had apparently' for-
" whether•.•it's:.w'eather, ,community; gotten to switch it 'riff .the. air...1
enterprise, ariimal"oddities at fan., 1' was chuckling, to ' `rriys 1f when
tasia in the 'field 'CO, flora., -,No- Andy -said': "Saye •Frank, 1 heard
body can start more ..;rura1 • com
motion of a week -end than Andy
aririounc tg •a claim: for thetail
est' , holtjhock• or the largest
_pumpkin.
•It '.takes two more . nights .for
Andy, to wrap ':up ,his broadcas'
a good story. toclay�-=it's about an
'Indian. chief . '. :.
"1 -"NOW it , ,happens that: Y hac1
,beets, with Andy that' afternbr1n
when ,he heard 'the story., It was
a' good one, to But it was not,
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