Radio: Who's a Phony?

Burly, two-fisted, plain-spoken Carroll Duard Alcott, 42, started it. Before he joined Cincinnati's WLW at Pearl Harbor time, Alcott was renowned throughout the Far East for his spade-calling broadcasts from Shanghai. Almost every time he opened his mouth Tokyo clenched its little fists.

To protect himself against assault, he acquired a bodyguard, wore a bulletproof vest and an automatic. He got out just in time. He is somewhat touchy about the Pacific war, thinks that the U.S. is doing far too little in that theater, and has said so.

Short, bald, mild Gregor Athalwin...