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<text id=94TT0690>
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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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