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 | | One is owned by the Smithsonian Museum in Washington and the other by Candice Bergen, daughter of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, who used the McCarthy figure and that of Mortimer Snerd and others to insult and confound celebrities during radio broadcasts of the 1930s and ‘40s. |
 | | Those broadcasts were punctuated by intermission memoirs of the first World War orated by Col. Robert R. McCormick, who was the publisher of the Tribune, owner of WGN facilities, sponsor of the program and one-time aide to General Douglas McArthur. |
 | | MBC is also the site of the Broadcasting Hall of Fame, which since 1991 has been the place where tribute is paid to many of the most famous names in broadcasting, among them Jack Brickhouse, Don Imus, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope, Paul Harvey, and Wally Phillips. |
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