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From: TidewaterForever
Date: 12 May 2007
Time: 20:06:54 -0500
Remote Name: 12.5.56.200
Thanks for your post, Chuck (a/k/a Sunday morning successor to Larry Wilde) . What I posted earlier was based on what Ira himself told me in March 1987, but I should note Ira was more than 70 at the time and Dick Kidney's death was then an event that had taken place 8 1/2 years earlier. Ira had told me that both he and Dick had lived at the now demolished Glen Gardens Apartments on 79th Street in Newport News during Ira's 1965-66 stint at WGH. When he had moved back to Newport News in 1973 from Charlottesville (via Waynesboro) he said Dick had helped him find a place to live. You're exactly right about the weekday routine Jim Moore had established for Dick Kidney (and \with modifications Pete Glazer from 1958 through 1970 and Joe Lowenthal from 1970 through '73. Armed with the perspective you provided, my guess is that Ira went over to Dick's place during the early afternoon of Monday, Seotember 18, 1978, to help get things straightened up. During the week Kidney died, I was 147 miles away in Charlottesville (which is where I am still. I always thought Kidney and Pete Glazer (who both began working for WGH in 1958) had great character voices, and wrote well for radio.