Paul Harvey Passes Away

Mark Simone - ABC Radio/news ^ | 2/28/09 | GoodDay

[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.

[LowOiL]

It is a sad day indeed... so sorry to hear about your loss.

[mass55th]

We’ll miss you Paul. Keep broadcasting the rest of the story in Heaven.

[BOBWADE]

[b4its2late]

Too bad. Another good one gone.

[rabidralph]

He’s asleep. He won’t find out till the rest of us do.

[John Leland 1789]

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.

[Grampa Dave]

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!

[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".

[cricket]

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.

[ExSoldier]

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.

[Kimmers]

I am so sorry about your mom.....

[ExSoldier]

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?

[Rockitz]

...and now you know the rest of the story. Good day life!

[ExSoldier]

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!

[itsLUCKY2B]

a real gentleman, RIP

[hoosierham]

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.

[AuntB]

RIP Mr. Harvey, you done good. You’ll be missed.

[rabidralph]

I thought so too, but my pastor explained that that particular story was a parable. Yes, RIP, Mr. Harvey.

[My Favorite Headache]

A legend. Period. RIP Paul. Good Day!

[My Favorite Headache]

So sorry for your loss.