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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1955
Page
22
The AM station at 1450 kilocycles, KPIG, broadcasts music and news daily from 6 am to 1 am Monday through Friday and over the weekend. The schedule highlights include daytime programming and late night news updates.
New York AP profile of Louis George Cowan, a veteran ideas man who created influential radio and TV formats. Highlights include The $64,000 Question, The Quiz Kids, Kay Kyser’s College of Musical Knowledge, and Stop the Music, plus his move to CBS-TV as a producer.
A former Iowa college student Harvey Miller of Salem Mass attended Cornell and Iowa, was one of four young writers signed to a seven year NBC contract under a new comedy development program. Others are Woody Allen Brooklyn Paul Pumpian Baltimore and Paul Keyes Boston. They were chosen from 10 000 applicants for the program.
National Newspaper Boy day will be observed in a special program on KCRG TV Friday night from 6 30 to 7. Cedar Rapids attorney David Stookey who was a Gazette carrier as a boy will speak. His son David is a current Gazette carrier. Free pins and certificates will be awarded to ten Gazette city carriers.
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