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5 unusual facts about Bob Edwards


Bob Edwards

Edwards decided not to remain at NPR as a senior correspondent, and filed only one story in that role (an interview with Bob Dole and other Senate veterans of World War II about the Washington, DC World War II memorial).

Coincidentally, the last show also included a segment about the last Oldsmobile, which rolled off an assembly line the day before.

Edwards was removed as host, replaced with Steve Inskeep and Renée Montagne, and reassigned as a senior correspondent for NPR News.

Catbird seat

However, according to "Colonel" Bob Edwards's book Fridays with Red, Barber claimed that Thurber got this and many other expressions from him, and that Barber had first heard the term used during a poker game in Cincinnati during the Great Depression.

KUT

1975 - KUT hosted Bob Edwards, then co-anchoring All Things Considered, and the NPR news production team during dedication week for the new Communication complex.



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