Tex McCrary

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Tex McCrary. birthname: John Reagan McCrary. (13 October 1910, Calvert, Texas - 29 July 2003, New York City) was a journalist and public relations specialist who invented the talk-show genre for both television and radio, and appeared on radio and TV with his wife Jinx Falkenburg. McCrary graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy in 1928.[1] According to Richard Kluger's The Paper, McCrary was responsible for John Hay Whitney's purchase of The New York Herald Tribune.[2]


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  1. ^ Phillips Exeter Academy Alumni Records
  2. ^ Kluger, Richard. The Paper: the life and death of the New York Herald Tribune./Richard Kluger with the assistance of Phyllis Kluger. New York, Knopf, 1986. 801 p. ISBN 0394508777