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Paul Harvey Passes Away
Mark Simone - ABC Radio/news ^
| 2/28/09
| GoodDay
Posted on 02/28/2009 4:58:28 PM PST by GoodDay
Mark Simone just announced on his radio show that legendary broadcaster Paul Harvey has passed away. He was 91 years old. No details yet.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: broadcasting; goodday; harvey; obituary; paulharvey; radio; therestofthestory
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To: ErnBatavia
It is a sad day indeed... so sorry to hear about your loss.
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posted on
03/01/2009 7:28:47 AM PST
by
LowOiL
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To: GoodDay
We’ll miss you Paul. Keep broadcasting the rest of the story in Heaven.
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posted on
03/01/2009 7:30:55 AM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: gwilhelm56
323
posted on
03/01/2009 7:34:33 AM PST
by
BOBWADE
To: GoodDay
Too bad. Another good one gone.
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posted on
03/01/2009 7:37:19 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
To: Puddleglum
He’s asleep. He won’t find out till the rest of us do.
To: GoodDay
A very fine American — Paul Harvey.
I taught some English classes abroad 20 years ago. The college was supposed to supply curriculum, but when I arrived, there was none.
I got on the phone to the States and ordered a couple of cases of Paul Harvey's “The Rest of the Story” paperbacks. They read exactly like Paul spoke on the radio; not grammatical, but full of common American English usage of words and colloquial expressions.
We used those paperbacks (along with copies of pages from the New Testament Gospels) as our curriculum.
I had 80 Chinese college students speaking English like Paul Harvey. It was great!
Without informing me, about a dozen of those students entered a spoken English contest at a neighboring teachers university. Since ours was a geology college for mining and oil drilling, the people at the teachers college laughed at them, but allowed them to enter.
They created a couple of skits from two or three short stories in Paul Harvey's book.
They won the contest over English majors at the teachers university.
There was an American Ph.D. teaching Western Literature at the teachers university, and he was on the judges panel at the contest. He telephoned me the next day and congratulated me, asking why I didn't attend.
I told him I hadn't even known about the contest, and had nothing to do with my students’ preparations for it.
During the next class with my students I brought it up. The students told me that they didn't tell me because if they had made a poor showing they didn't want me to be embarrassed or ashamed of them.
I had to hug my students.
It was old Paul Harvey that put them in good standing, not me. His stories inspired and encouraged them. The students also said that their view of the United States had entirely changed by studying Paul Harvey, them knowing that the stories had not been written to try to convince Chinese of anything, as a standard curriculum might have been. Paul Harvey was REAL, not a propagandist -— this is what the students themselves said.
Yes, Paul was real! I will miss him very much.
To: MeekOneGOP
My best friend in High School and room mate my senior year in College was a Paul Harvey.
At that time, I thought that he was a little touched in the head. Later in life, I realized ike with many other things, he was ahead of the curve in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. I will have to give him a call and thank him for introducing me to Mr Harvey.
Before Rush came on the air and the Rush wanna bees, Paul was the only breath of fresh air on the radio and in news for decades.
RIP Mr Harvey and thank you for decades of honesty, the truth and superb history lessons!
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posted on
03/01/2009 8:18:16 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Zer0's friends are criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, perverts, sexual deviates or tax cheats!)
To: Grampa Dave
I need my second cup of coffee: "My best friend in High School and room mate my senior year in College was a Paul Harvey, "Fan".
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posted on
03/01/2009 8:20:18 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Zer0's friends are criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, perverts, sexual deviates or tax cheats!)
To: backhoe
and how strange it is because sometimes, we feel like if we just drove out to their places one more time, and parked and walked up the walkways again, there they'd be, standing in the kitchen door... Loving memories have a 'surreal' place in time; and realty all their own. . .We should always hold to the best of them.
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posted on
03/01/2009 8:33:42 AM PST
by
cricket
(January 20, 2009 - the day the music died)
To: GoodDay
Wow, I grew up listening to him and his "rest of the story" commentaries. Now that he has access to the
real rest of the story for all of time memorial, I expect one of the first things we'll be hearing at the
RAPTURE is him welcoming us all home.
330
posted on
03/01/2009 8:57:03 AM PST
by
ExSoldier
(Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
To: ErnBatavia
I am so sorry about your mom.....
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posted on
03/01/2009 9:08:03 AM PST
by
Kimmers
(Working hard so Obamas friends don't have to)
To: backhoe
Hi, FRiend- I lost my Mom in 2003, and Miss Emily's passed away almost a year ago-- and how strange it is because sometimes, we feel like if we just drove out to their places one more time, and parked and walked up the walkways again, there they'd be, standing in the kitchen door... That is exactly how I felt when I lost my mom in 1998. I was holding her hand when she walked across that threshold into Glory and I expect she'll be waiting to welcome me home when GLORY visits the world again and takes us all away. Lately I've been thinking that moment looms ever closer. RAPTURE READY?
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posted on
03/01/2009 9:16:16 AM PST
by
ExSoldier
(Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
To: GoodDay
...and now you know the rest of the story. Good day life!
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posted on
03/01/2009 9:21:17 AM PST
by
Rockitz
(This isn't rocket science- follow the money and you'll find truth.)
To: ErnBatavia
My condolences to you and yours. I know exactly how you feel right this moment. If you've seen this moment coming for awhile, then everything that needs to be done has been done. My family only had two weeks to process and it was tough. Mom was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and in two weeks she was gone. But we made the very most of that time. Oh the conversations we had!
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posted on
03/01/2009 9:28:55 AM PST
by
ExSoldier
(Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
To: Rockitz
335
posted on
03/01/2009 10:09:21 AM PST
by
itsLUCKY2B
(?Borders, Language, and Culture.?)
To: rabidralph
The Bible is kind of contradictory on this:remember the story(parable?) of the rich? man in hell asking if he could only have a drop of water on his tongue ? How so IF he were asleep?
Anyway ,may the Lord of all creation reward Mr. Harvey.
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posted on
03/01/2009 10:51:05 AM PST
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: GoodDay
RIP Mr. Harvey, you done good. You’ll be missed.
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posted on
03/01/2009 10:54:49 AM PST
by
AuntB
(The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
To: hoosierham
I thought so too, but my pastor explained that that particular story was a parable. Yes, RIP, Mr. Harvey.
To: GoodDay
A legend. Period. RIP Paul. Good Day!
To: ErnBatavia
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