Spoiler : Ford Bond (David Ford Bond) Born Louisville, Kentucky, October 23, 1904 Died St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, August 15, 1962 Age 57 His career as radio announcer lasted from 1930 until the late 1940s. He was Thomas E. Dewey's radio consultant for the 1948 Presidential election. Bond moved to the Virgin Islands after that and worked in real estate.

Spoiler : I remember reading an article about him in one of those "Who's Who in Broadcasting" books from about 1937: He had a very similar graduate education as mine (I studied to be a missionary music teacher at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, with an academic major in Tuba Performance earning a Master of Music in Church Music degree). He earned a Master of Sacred Music degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, with a major in Vocal Performance. Many of the early radio announcers were disgruntled singers.

Spoiler : Bond, Ford (birth name was David Ford Bond) Born in Louisville, Kentucky 10/23/1904; died 8/15/1962 in St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Married to soprano Lois Bennett (?-1962 his death). Bond began his career as a singer on local Louisville, Kentucky radio stations in 1922. In 1927, he became a staff announcer at WHAS- Louisville. Later he moved to Chicago, then New York in 1930 as a staff announcer at NBC.

Spoiler : Announcer (sometimes one of many) for radio programs including Cities Service Concert on NBC (beginning in the early the 1930's until 1956); Easy Aces on NBC (1935-1942); David Harum on NBC (1936-1951); Manhattan Merry-Go-Round on NBC (1932-1949); NBC soap, Backstage Wife (1936- 1955); NBC soap, Stella Dallas (1938-1955); NBC and CBS soap, Your Family And Mine (1938-1940); NBC soap, Ellen Randolph (1939-1941); Monday Merry-Go-Round on NBC-BLUE (1941-1942); Highways In Melody on NBC (1944-1948); CBS soap, Nona From Nowhere (1950-1951). Host-announcer for College Prom on NBC-BLUE (1935-1936).

Spoiler : Announcer for television programs including Cities Service Band Of America on NBC (1949-1950); DuMont Network's play-by-play college football sportscasts in 1953. In 1953, Bond retired from broadcasting, and moved to the Virgin Islands where he became a builder and realtor of resort property.