The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 79

1 '1 A Jill i i 1 1 j-Site JCv. Hi- viti--- -t- i i i A ni mi. i i hi- i Reputation in Rudeness A Bully of a Broadcaster By BERT DARR Island audiences twisting the dial early morning may have introduced themselves already to the booming, rude voice of a fellow who calls himself Joe Pyne. This bully of a broadcaster," a New Jersey Marine who lost a leg in fighting on Okinawa during World War II, admits he earns as much annually as NBC's Johnnv Carson just by being rude. That's $400,000 a year! Pyne, heard twice each morning now Monday inrougn naays on Klnu radio, does own three cars, a Rolls Rovce.

a classic Triumoh and an Aston Martin. He also has a fashionable house in Hollywood Hills. I His show, syndicated to a number of stations throughout the country, insults, bullies and ridicules its guests. Usually there are two such victims'' daily and most come out second Carson best in the broadcast battle. The subjects, of course, are controversial to begin with.

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i -i nrffil i.iin.n i4 i From limit' Insult to In jury Pyne opens programs with an insult and keeps his "victim" on the defensive until the interview is completed. When his guests are driven into corners he snarls and proves himself at his best. No apologies. No excuses. Joe, who like many of us, grew up in rough, tough Depression Days, learned to fight young.

His father was an Irish-descended bricklayer who would rather "fight than switch." And Joe Pyne isn't "switching." Twist the dial to KTRG radio 6:30 a.m. or 2 p.m. if you're for a fight." Shifting 'Peyton Place Nights "Peyton Place," that magic nighttime "soap opera" which keeps loyal fans on the edges of their TV seats week-after-week, soon will be shifting its broadcast nights. When ABC brings in some of its "second season" programming after the first of the year, "Peytoa Place" will be viewed MONDAY and TUESDAY nights instead of the present Monday and Wednesdays. This may mean a switch for bridge players or bowlers around the country, but Peyton Place" fans won't have to wait a day for that added "punch line" from the TV writers.

TRAVEL TOPICS By Micky Baud "Sing a song of South America and sing it loud and clear," writes Micky Baird, who has just returned from a three-week tour of Latin America and the Caribbean. Her story, first in a series, appears on Page 24 of this week's Aloha-TV Magazine in The Sunday Star-Bulletin Advertiser. Also in this week's travel section: An Angelino Los Angeles Times travel editor Jerry Hulse looks at Kona Village, and Horace Sutton tells of how stockholders are being taken for a very pleasant ride. Turn to the travel section. CBS, which has in its towering new Manhattan headquarters a personable, talented vice president named Frank Shakespeare, has already earned acclaim for the network this season with surprising specials.

It seems perfectly natural, then, for the same network to sign a long-term contract with who else but Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company to produce the works of The Bard on television. Let's make it clear, though, that vice president Frank Shakespeare, according to what he revealed to us a few years ago during a visit, is NOT related to the writer. Nevertheless CBS is going to produce, with the aid of the Stratford-On-Avon troupe, "King Lear," "Mao-Continued on page 42 S2S5SSSSK2.