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#10629: TEX AND JINX SHOW: STARRING TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

1949-12-29, WNBC, min.

TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY:

April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959.

WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm.

In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948.

Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.”

Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.”

In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show.

When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003.

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The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world.

Topics discussed: Predictions for good year in 1950. Milk prices to be lowered, Thomas Dewey will not run for President. Personalities of 1949: Frederick March defends himself on smear accusations of being a communist, General Omar Bradley on interservice feud, refers to characteristics of martyrs, Pancho Gonzalez on proposed championship tennis match, Herbert Hoover poking fun at Truman's budget, Senator Robert Taft on his foreign policy, Walter Reuther on wages and prices. Today's guest: Kay Kyser. Includes recording by Kay Kyser announcing end of WW II.
Kyser talks about this experience, comments on proposed TV show for 1950 and television in general.

#13460: REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, THE

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1960-07-25, , min.

The Republican National Convention opens in Chicago. Senator Walter Judd gives the keynote address.  Interview with Richard M. Nixon. Nixon interplay with former President Herbert Hoover. Recording of roll call of the states and balloting for Presidential nominee, taken on July 27th.

#13460A: REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION CONTINUED

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1960-07-27, , min.

Highlights: An interview with Richard Nixon, Nixon, and Herbert Hoover in a teta-tate, roll call of states, balloting for a presidential nominee.

#13462: CBS NEWS, THE

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1960-08-09, CBS, min.

Highlights: Khrushchev may come to New York as Russian delegation heads to UN, Russians publish an indictment on Gary Powers spying, an interview with Herbert Hoover on health issues.

#63: INAUGURATION CEREMONIES OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY

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1961-01-20, WCBS, 57 min.

CBS coverage with Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Charles Collingwood, Howard K. Smith and others provide commentary on this eventful day. We hear the last 14 minutes of President John F. Kennedy's 15 minute inauguration speech. In addition, Nancy Hodgeman interviews Lynda Bird Johnson and Lucy Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and Gov. Averell Harriman. Charles Collingwood reports from the Mayflower Hotel where the inaugural luncheon is covered. There are retrospective original audios heard of Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower being sworn into office plus the oath of office taken today by President John F. Kennedy. Howard K. Smith commentary and analysis follows.

#241: HOOVER AT 88

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1962-08-10, WNBC, 35 min.

From former President Herbert Hoover's birth place in West Branch, Iowa, NBC correspondent Frank McGee is anchor for a live birthday celebration. Former President Harry Truman speaks words of tribute. The Hoover Presidential Library is dedicated. Former President Herbert Hoover's speech includes proclamations for a council for the world�s free nations. NBC News Commentator Jim Hurlbut summarizes. An unscheduled daytime NBC Special Report.

#303: ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE

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1962-11-04, WCBS, 55 min.

From Carnegie Hall, a Salute to Richard Rodgers with Gordon MacRae, Roberta Peters, Steve Lawrence, Nancy Dussault, Peggy Lee, Cesare Siepi and Diahann Carroll. Ed Sullivan reads telegrams in tribute from Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adlai E. Stevenson and others.

#13992: CBS NEWS, THE

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1963-03-05, CBS, min.

Topics: Floods in the Midwest, Governor Rockefeller criticizes President Kennedy's civil rights program, Pam-Am building to open, Brooklyn dock boss Tony Anastasio is dead, Congress to approve a bill permitting Winston Churchill to become an honorary US citizen, Herbert Hoover receives an award from Stanford University, SINA group wants animals clothed.

#14145C: NEWS, THE

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1963-06-16, , min.

Topics: Former President Hoover is seriously ill, the Russian astronauts are still in space, President Kennedy is criticized by the Republicans, Hugh Scott and Barry Goldwater should avoid European trip and pay attention to domestic matters, David Ben Gurion resigns as Israeli Prime Minister, a riot in Saigon following the funeral of a Buddhist priest who burned himself to death in protest to Diem's government, a review of British weeklies, Perfumo sex-scandal. negro crisis in the US, the legacy of Pope John 23rd, English monarchy.

#11100: HERBERT HOOVER DIES AT AGE 91

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1964-10-20, , min.

Herbert Hoover

Former US President Herbert Hoover dies in his suite at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City at age 91.

#14649: NBC SPECIAL: BIOGRAPHY OF HERBERT HOOVER

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1964-10-20, NBC, 23 min.

Herbert Hoover

Biography of former president Herbert Hoover following his death.

#14651: CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE, THE

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1964-10-21, CBS, 11 min.

The presidential political campaign warms up and gets dirtier, comments by President Johnson, services for former President Hoover, Charles Kuralt reports.   

Host: Walter Cronkite.

#1097: A 1970'S RADIO BROADCAST ADDITION: THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF RADIO

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1970-11-00, KDKA, 294 min.

A fiftieth anniversary of Radio Broadcasting, 1920 to 1970, with narrators Ben Gross, Jimmy Wallington, Henry Morgan, George Hamilton Combs, Garry Moore and Jack Bogut. Tracks include Warren Barber, Rudy Vallee, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, Al Smith, Amos 'N' Andy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Lauder, Will Rogers, Ben Bernie's Orchestra, Jack Benny and Mary Livingston, Arthur Godfrey, Charlie McCarthy and W.C Fields, Victor Borge, Herbert Hoover, Bob Hope, Ed Wynn, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, Agnes Moorehead, "The Lone Ranger," "The Shadow," Irene Wicker, Jack Armstrong, "Young Dr.Malone," "Mary Noble Backstage Wife," "Sybil Trent, Eleanor Powell, Ziegfeld Follies with James Melton, Lanny Ross, Ben Grauer, "The March of Time," Huey Long, John Daly, Walter Winchell, Winston Churchill, Kay Kayser's Orchestra, Command Performance, Wartime Songs, "Your Hit Parade," Harry S. Truman, "Stage Door Canteen, "Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, Bing Crosby, Princess Elizabeth, Edward R. Murrow, General Wainwright, Wendell Willkie, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Bruce Morrow, Stan Freberg, William B. Williams, Rod MacLeish, Barry Farber, Death of J.F.K., radio fluffs and commercials.

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#10629: TEX AND JINX SHOW: STARRING TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

1949-12-29, WNBC, min.

#13460: REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, THE

1960-07-25, , min.

#13460A: REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION CONTINUED

1960-07-27, , min.

#13462: CBS NEWS, THE

1960-08-09, CBS, min.

#63: INAUGURATION CEREMONIES OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY

1961-01-20, WCBS, 57 min.

#241: HOOVER AT 88

1962-08-10, WNBC, 35 min.

#303: ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE

1962-11-04, WCBS, 55 min.

#13992: CBS NEWS, THE

1963-03-05, CBS, min.

#14145C: NEWS, THE

1963-06-16, , min.

#11100: HERBERT HOOVER DIES AT AGE 91

1964-10-20, , min.

#14649: NBC SPECIAL: BIOGRAPHY OF HERBERT HOOVER

1964-10-20, NBC, 23 min.

#14651: CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE, THE

1964-10-21, CBS, 11 min.

#1097: A 1970'S RADIO BROADCAST ADDITION: THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF RADIO

1970-11-00, KDKA, 294 min.