http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Daly
John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly[1] (generally known as John Charles Daly or simply John Daly (February 20, 1914 – February 24, 1991[2]) was an American journalist, game show host and radio personality, probably best known for hosting the panel show What’s My Line?. He was the vice president of ABC during the 1950s. On December 22, 1960, he became the son-in-law of Chief Justice Earl Warren, upon marrying Virginia Warren.[3]
Famous broadcasts
As a reporter for CBS, Daly was the voice of two historic announcements. He was the first national radio correspondent to deliver the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 (recordings of this announcement reveal a minor error, either a mistyping of the copy in haste or a misreading by Daly as he pronounced Oahu as if it were spelled “O-ha-u”), and he was the first to relay the wire service report of the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, interrupting “Wilderness Road” to deliver the news. Both narrations have been used on historical record albums and radio and TV retrospectives.
I remember him for the watch commercials he did. “Takes a licking, and keeps on ticking” [Timex?]