Radio

The Rest of the Story: Paul Harvey, now 71, in radio since he was 14, has been a fixture on ABC Radio since 1951 and shows no signs of slowing down. “My vocation and avocation have kind of become the same thing,” he said in an interview with Reuters. “What would I do? Play more golf? The way I play? My goodness that’s real torment. And I certainly don’t enjoy sitting on a creek bank drowning worms more than one day a year. I’d rather be sitting at that typewriter painting pictures. I’d rather be doing that than anything else.” In writing his broadcasts, Harvey says, “I try with each story to keep in mind two things--what people want to hear and what people need to hear. As far as basic philosophy is concerned I am, I guess, a profound optimist.”