Posted on 05/05/2008 10:59:40 PM PDT by MindBender26
RIVER FOREST, Ill. The wife of radio legend Paul Harvey, Lynne Cooper Harvey died at her Illinois home Saturday morning after a year-long battle with leukemia, according to a statement from Harvey's office.
The woman he called "Angel" was 92.
Lynne developed and edited her husband's best-known feature "The Rest of the Story."
A director, writer and editor, and the producer of her husband's radio program, she was the first producer ever inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.
Among her brainchilds were including news features within hard-news broadcasts, and the humorous "kicker," which became a Paul Harvey trademark.
The Harveys met in St. Louis, Lynne Cooper's hometown, at KXOK and married in 1940. Lynne, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington University, began her radio career reporting on educational topics.
She also served on numerous charitable boards, including Prevent Child Abuse America, the USO, the Illinois Mental Health Association, and the Joffrey Ballet.
She was also an enthusiastic contributor to various animal welfare groups.
Paul declared how much his "Angel" meant to him as he received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House Nov. 9, 2005.
I feel like that somedays, too at 46.
“And, you were probably reading the Burma Shave signs!”
I loved the Burma Shave signs. A peace of historical American memorabilia. Made all of our vacation trips while stuck in the car more pleasurable.
Thanks for posting this MB26. Paul Harvey was and is the way news should be done.
Try 64.5 !
:~)
Rest in Peace.
No need to exaggerate. Harvey is frequently factually wrong and his liberal bias is beginning to show more and more the older he gets.
Ah, Burma Shave, the only respite besides license plates, from “are we there yet”.
PS, would it be called Myanmar shave today?
:)
Bump, as a tribute to Paul Harvey’s passing (today).
Quote, from a bio of Harvey (Los Angeles Times Oct 8, 1978)
“The most pressing concern, as Harvey sees it, is ‘the pocketbook issue’...
almost everything else is obscured in its significance...
Wally Hickle (former secretary of the Interior) was saying the other day
that he thinks the next revolution in this country, will be when those
who work refuse to support those who don’t.”
(Talk about prophetic!)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/files/1978_1008_paul_harvey.jpg
And this, as Paul Harvey always put it, “is the rest of the story”.
Sleep well, Mr. & Mrs. Harvey, and thank you.
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