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A radio newsman, Trout began his news reporting career at Virginia's WJSV in 1931. He was quickly brought into CBS, and was the one who dubbed President Franklin Roosevelt's radio addresses the "fireside chats". His World News Roundup started with Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1938, and was a regular feature for decades. More recently, Trout was known as a producer and commentator for All Things Considered on National Public Radio. Trout died November 14 from congestive heart failure in New York. He was 91. From This is True for 12 November 2000 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Joe Garner List Price: $49.95 Amazon Price: $32.97 Editorial Review: This edition features 3 audio CDs with actual broadcasts and includes a new afterword from NBC's Brian Williams. "Altogether, the book and CDs are a keeper, offering both valuable history lessons and a dramatic record of the definitive moments for generations of Americans." -Publishers Weekly "The CDs deliver an exciting, engaging exercise. The events are all hugely memorable. The bits of historic sound are powerfully evocative." -Baltimore Sun "Garner has done a masterful job of collecting these moments, and with the accompanying CDs, one can listen over and over to the moments that shaped this century." -Booklist  By: Garrison Keillor List Price: $13.95 Amazon Price: $11.16 Editorial Review: A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Humor includes "Skinny Dip," "Homecoming," "The Freedom of the Press," and "Vicks."  By: Radio City Entertainment List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $17.72  By: Garrison Keillor List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $9.95 Editorial Review: "Jokes are good for your health," Garrison Keillor says. "They reduce stress, even jokes as old as ?Does this bus go to Duluth?? ?No, this bus goes beep beep.? Or the blind man who picked up a hammer and saw. They keep on pleasing us, year after year." And year after year, "A Prairie Home Companion" annual Joke Shows keep on drawing huge audiences of radio listeners. They?re among the most popular shows in the program?s history?and they stay funny no matter how often you hear them. The puns and one-liners still make you groan. You still fall for the knock-knocks and the lightbulb jokes (how many does it take?). Somehow the bar jokes never grow old. And somehow the e-mail jokes already sound like classics. This CD was originally part of the Plenty of Pretty Good Jokes collection, released in 2004. Now available separately, it features every morsel of hilarity from Joke Shows 7 (2/1/03) and 8 (4/17/04). Garrison?s guests include Paula Poundstone. The jokes are audience-tested and certified Not Bad.  By: James A. MillerTom Shales List Price: $15.95 Amazon Price: $10.85 Editorial Review: The New York Times bestselling oral history of Saturday Night Live that finally reveals what really went on backstage, on the set, in the writers' offices, and on the town, is now in paperback! In their own words, a galaxy of stars--including Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Adam Sandler, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Martin, Dana Carvey, Tina Fey, Molly Shannon, Al Franken, and other members of Saturday Night Live's extended family--recall a quarter-century's worth of great backstage stories, behind-the-scenes gossip, feuds, foibles, drugs, sex, struggles, and calamities. The result: a page-turner that reveals how and why SNL has become the longest-running television comedy of all time. |
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