Star Tribune from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 225

now mainly on his own as a professional speaker, trainer of speakers and all-around motivator. Continued page 19 Jack Hastings as Johnny 44, below, and Hastings, below right, at work at Scandinavian Design. At right, Bob (Montgomery) White as Captain Bob, on the left, with Dale Woodley, and Montgomery, below center, today. When Bob Montgomery, who had been Big Bill Cash on WCCO radio, decided to audition for "Popeye's Clubhouse" to replace Mel Jass on WCCO-TV, he made sure he got everybody's attention. Montgomery (then known as Bob White) brought along a live lion.

"I got the job," he said, and he became Captain Bob. The first thing Captain Bob did was to get Como Zoo to allow him to bring an animal on the program every week, a loan that was approved, according to Montgomery, by Stanley Hubbard of Channel 5, a zoo director, who said, "You thought of it first." The show was on five days a week from 5:30 to 6 p.m. in the mid-'50s, giving way finally to Channel 4's expanded newscast. Montgomery, who lives in Burnsville, still sometimes sits in for Erickson or Charley Boone, but he is St 1 I pi i A rf.