Goodman Ace

Goodman Ace , born Goodman Aiskowitz, was an American humourist, radio writer and comedian, television writer, and magazine columnist.

Ace did have a serious side, too, and he melded it to his sense of the absurd to create a radio show with the twist of taking listeners to recreated historical events described by actual CBS News reporters. The problem, as revealed by CBS historian Robert Metz , was that Ace didnt get official credit for his creation for many years a CBS executive vice president named Desmond Taylor gained the original credit for the show born on radio as CBS Was There and famed for its introduction, which leapt into the American vernacular All things are as they were then, except you... are... there!

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