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for which he also wrote scripts. Like other Y&R radio executives, he produced other radio programs, wrote other scripts, and wrote commercials. His scripts included those for a program that featured weekly reports from the
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advertising agency as that agency for the first time consolidated its radio operations under one person. He joined CBS in 1947. He left CBS in 1959, forming
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