Remembering Chris Glenn
(CBS)
One of my earliest memories of news is the voice of Christopher Glenn, summarizing the week's events on the Saturday morning TV show In the News. He was the voice of space launches, and hourly news reports, and The World Tonight, and The World News Roundup. He had a voice that mingled cognac and cigarette smoke -- he was an inveterate, ceaseless smoker -- and both Chris and that famous voice seemed ageless. More than that voice, he had a gift for words, and a way of weaving a story that made it real and immediate. He ventured into television a few times, but he always returned to radio. It was where he belonged, in the "theater of the mind."
I was there when Douglas Edwards retired, and passed the baton to Chris Glenn, who took over The World Tonight from him in the late '80s. And I was there earlier this year when Chris himself retired. You had the sense then that an era was ending. It was. And it has.
So many of the redwoods are gone.
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I can still hear that magnificent voice as he signed off, saying his name.
Prayers to his loved ones, who will miss him most of all. I will never forget him.
I can still hear him saying his name. I will never forget.
Prayers for his loved ones, at the loss of someone so wonderful.
It is still a great phrase.
As a voice teacher, I would often recommend him to students for listening to as an excellent example of inflection and sonority. Katie's "Cognac and cigarette smoke" metaphor hit it right on the head.
I frankly confess that I cried when I saw the news tonight. Please add my condolences to the millions of others from those that will surely miss Christopher Glenn.