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The Chief Announcer doesn’t fuss; He just talks pleasantly to us, And makes it absolutely clear About the things we’re going to hear. There’s not an item he can miss. Announcing that, announcing this, The job must be an awful strain, You'd think twould muddle up his brain, And yet he doesn’t scream or shout. He doesn’t throw the scripts about And yell, "It’s all a frightful bore, I simply wor’t read any more." No tantrums ever seem to seize him. The fat stock prices really please him; Nor does he turn a hair when he Is standing by for Daventry. He just continues patiently Announcing jazz or symphony? Things to enlighten or amuse, Or simply giving us the News. I dor’t believe twould make him jump If he should hear the Final Trump, But in his calm and usual way
He’d take the microphone and say, "This interruption please excuse, Here is the last and final news: Dear Listeners, the truth to tell, We're standing by-for Gabriel."
Dorothy Ann
Beavis
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 71, 1 November 1940, Page 14
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173A TRIBUTE New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 71, 1 November 1940, Page 14
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