[Political Junkie Too]

Mention the name Hoover to most Americans and they think you are talking about either a vacuum cleaner, the late F.B.I. chief or a big dam.

I remember the Bloopers record advertisements from the 1970s where the news announcer refers to "Hoobert Heever."

-PJ

[Publius]

I remember the Bloopers record advertisements from the 1970s where the news announcer refers to "Hoobert Heever."

And the newscaster who made that famous blooper in 1931 was the legendary Harry Von Zell.

Von Zell retired from TV in the Fifties when George Burns' TV show went off the air. He came out of retirement in the Seventies to MC a classical music radio quiz show for high school students that aired on KFAC, then LA's classical station. (Von Zell was a classical music fanatic with the accent on opera.)

He died sometime in the Eighties, if I remember correctly.