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Robert Lewis Shayon (August 15, 1912 – June 28, 2008) was a writer and producer for WOR and for the CBS Radio in New York City. He was also a teacher at the Annenberg School for Communication and the University of Pennsylvania. He was born in Brooklyn on August 15, 1912. His mother died in 1918 when he was 6, and his father, who was an insurance salesman, later married a woman who had her own children. By the late 1920s, he was homeless and sleeping on park benches

Retrieved 2008-06-27. The Eagle's Brood was worth every nickel it cost. What I saw," says Shayon, "hit me between the eyes. His script, as radio rarely does, hit listeners between the ears.

Shayon, Robert Lewis 1912-2008OBITUARY NOTICE-See index for CA sketch: Born August 15, 1912, in Brooklyn, NY; died of pneumonia, June 28, 2008, in Frankfort, KY. Radio producer and director, television and radio writer, educator, critic, and author. Shayon was a radio producer and director in the late 1930s and 1940s, before the medium was overtaken by television. In those days radio was the premier entertainment outlet, home to talk and variety shows, plays, situation comedies, and the like. His crowning glory was the popular series You Are There, which he produced, directed, and occasionally scripted for three years in the late 1940s. The series presented entertaining episodes on historical events in the format of a combined travel guide and news broadcast, featuring the familiar voice of news correspondent Walter Cronkite as narrator.

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Robert Lewis Shayon - a male celebrity - born on Thursday August 15th 1912, in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA,. Robert Lewis Shayon is the philanthropist and humanitarian who is deeply concerned about the state of the world, for which he has great compassion and idealism. He has a utopian personality, and will spend her life trying to realize some aspect of her utopian dream, sacrificing money, time, and energy for a better world. His broad outlook on life allows Shayon to see the big picture, and to often shy away from dealing with the minute details