Willard Franklin "Bill" Shadel was an American news anchor for CBS Radio and ABC Television.
15 Facts About Bill Shadel
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Bill Shadel was musically talented and in his early years provided music for silent movies.
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Bill Shadel assumed direction of the college band and orchestra in 1929, while still a student and then worked as an assistant program manager for the college's radio station, responsible for music presentations that included his performing as a soloist on marimba, saxophone, clarinet, and trombone and him directing bands and choirs for the station.
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Bill Shadel's work as a soloist and with these groups, which gave programs for the school, was an immediate hit with their members and the campus at large.
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Bill Shadel began his career as a musician in silent-movie theaters before taking his marimba to live radio.
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Bill Shadel began writing for The American Rifleman - a journal of the National Rifle Association of America.
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Bill Shadel received press credentials from CBS and shipped overseas to cover the European Theater.
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Bill Shadel's duties were taken over by his associate editors, and The American Rifleman carried articles and interviews by Shadel up until the end of the war.
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Mr Bill Shadel said it was the memory of the living, not the multitudes of dead, that stayed with him most.
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Each week on WTOP-TV, a local department store sponsored a fashion show; Bill Shadel met and fell in love with one of the models.
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Bill Shadel became his wife of more than 56 years, Julie Strouse.
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In 1954 Bill Shadel became the first host of the Sunday-morning interview show Face the Nation.
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Bill Shadel later became one of several anchors for ABC's Evening News after John Charles Daly stepped down in 1960, and that year moderated the third presidential debate between Richard M Nixon and John F Kennedy.
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Bill Shadel left the news business in 1963, then taught as Professor of communications at the University of Washington until retiring 12 years later.
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Bill Shadel was the 1951 president of the Radio-Television Correspondents Association.