| LC control no. | n 78083433 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Daly, John Charles, 1914-1991 |
| Variant(s) | Daly, John, 1914-1991 |
| Birth date | 1914-02-20 |
| Death date | 1991-02-24 |
| Place of birth | Johannesburg (South Africa) |
| Place of death | Chevy Chase (Md.) |
| Affiliation | American Broadcasting Company Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. National Broadcasting Company |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists Television game show hosts |
| Found in | America's town meeting of the air (Radio program) Town meeting ... [Phonodisc] 1955. Wikipedia WWW site, December 1, 2008 (John Charles Daly; John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly; generally known by John Charles Daly or simply John Daly; b. February 20, 1914, Johannesburg, South Africa; d. February 24, 1991; journalist, game show host, and radio personality; vice president of ABC during the 1950s) The New York Times, via WWW, December 3, 2013 (February 27, 1991 edition; John Charles Daly Jr., the Host Of 'What's My Line?,' Dies at 77; born February 20, 1914 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his father, an American, worked as a geologist; when his father died of tropical fever, his mother took him and his older brother to Boston; he studied at Tilton School in Tilton, N.H., attended junior college there, and completed his education at Boston College; he worked for a time in a wool factory and for a transit company in Washington before becoming a reporter for NBC Radio and then CBS; he served as White House correspondent for CBS, and eventually traveled the globe reporting for the CBS Radio Network; he hosted What's My Line? from 1950 to 1967; his popularity on the show led to a vice-presidency at ABC in charge of news, special events, public affairs, religious programs and sports; he died at his home in Chevy Chase, Md.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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