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KING PINS BOWLING LEESBURG TV
Roone Arledge brought him to ABC in 1964 and he became the network's voice for NCAA college football games for 12 years. "It got up to $300 a show by the time I left CBS." The best job in horse racing, for scale," he said, marveling three decades later. "It was then I was told what the job paid. "He's elegant, and that's a lost trait in our profession." "He is the classiest gentleman in the business," Gifford said of Schenkel. And their appreciation and respect remains strong.
KING PINS BOWLING LEESBURG TV
Schenkel shepherded Gifford and Summerall into broadcasting as the first TV partner to both. That, as much as his accomplishments, endears him to his home state-including his birthplace, Bippus, where the welcoming sign honors him. They have been married for 42 years.īut though the road to success led to New York, he returned to make his permanent home in Indiana. And that's where he met a June Taylor dancer named Fran Paige. That's where in the 1950s he made of variety of friends from sportscaster Mel Allen, who died last week, to musician Errol Garner to comedian Jackie Gleason to restaurateur Toots Shor. and, as his career and salary grew, to New York City. "Chris, you talk like Fred Astaire dances, and I could listen to you forever."įrom an $18-a-week radio job in Indiana-where childhood experiences growing up on a farm with Native Americans as neighbors spawned ongoing passions for farming and American Indian history and artifacts-Schenkel moved to Providence, R.I.
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