[ARC5] Paul Harvey Passes Away

[David Stinson]

 Alas- more sand through the hourglass.
The world becomes more and more an alien place-
no John Wayne, no Merrell Lynch, no Paul Harvey.
Our Hank Reardens pass away,
leaving us with only Wesley Moochs.

CHICAGO - Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose 
staccato style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices, died 
Saturday in Arizona, according to ABC Radio Networks. He was 90.
Harvey died surrounded by family at a hospital in Phoenix, where he had a 
winter home, said Louis Adams, a spokesman for ABC Radio Networks, where 
Harvey worked for more than 50 years. No cause of death was immediately 
available.
Harvey had been forced off the air for several months in 2001 because of a 
virus that weakened a vocal cord. But he returned to work in Chicago and was 
still active as he passed his 90th birthday. His death comes less than a 
year after that of his wife and longtime producer, Lynne.
"My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio and 
television news," Paul Harvey Jr. said in a statement. "So in the past year, 
an industry has lost its godparents and today millions have lost a friend."