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3 unusual facts about Roy H. McVicker


Roy H. McVicker

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress.

Born in Edgewater, Colorado, Mcvicker was educated at South Denver High School, Denver University, Columbia College, and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1950.

He was admitted to the bar in New York in 1950, and practiced law in Wheat Ridge, Colorado from 1953 to 1964.


Duncan Hines

By 1953, Hines sold the right to use his name and the title of his book to Roy H. Park to form Hines-Park Foods, which licensed the name to a number of food-related businesses.

KZJK

Nationwide Communications bought both the AM and FM stations from the estate of its longtime owner Roy Park, then Nationwide was bought by Jacor, which spun the station off to Infinity Broadcasting (which later became part of CBS Radio).

Pamela Clauss

Three years later she went to the Mayo Clinic as part of an exchange-training program, and in 1965 she joined the open-heart surgery team of Dr. Roy H. Clauss (who would become her husband in 1970) and Dr. George Reed in NYC.

Roy H. Park

In the late 1940s, the Grange approached Park to find a way to market their excess food products; Park approached well-known food critic Duncan Hines to lend his name to a brand of packaged food products.

WTVR-TV

Havens sold WTVR-TV, WMBG-AM, and WCOD-FM to Roy H. Park Communications in 1966, earning a handsome return on his investment of 40 years earlier.

WWHT

That format and call letter assignment remained in place until 1979, when new owner Roy H. Park broadcasting changed the station's format and call letters.


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