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Word came today of the death of Dick Cottam, who for many years broadcast from this booth at the back of the newsroom at The Columbia Daily Tribune, at 7th & Cherry Streets in Columbia, Mo. Reading the news is Eric Engberg, later of CBS News Cottam was the first radio guy I ever met in person, when I was a tiny kid and he was covering the Cosmopolitan Club's annual Pancake Day. Engberg replaced Cottam as news director when Cottam went to NBC.

One of the most famous radio personalities in the world, Willis Conover broadcast his jazz program on the Voice of America to every country on the planet for decades. Mamiya 645, normal lens, Tri-X, Microdol-X 1:3