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When the going is easy, he is the spieling image of his father. When the going is tough, he is only the eldest son--but even then Jimmy Roosevelt is an able speaker with a pleasant voice and good diction. Last week, on the grounds that he had inherited enough of his father's magic to hold down a regular news commentator assignment, two small California stations signed him for a five-a-week schedule. (Both stations, Los Angeles' KLAC and San Francisco's KYA, are owned by the New Dealing, New York Post-publishing Thackreys.)

Jimmy Roosevelt will write his own 15-minute scripts, stealing time here & there from his successful insurance and color-film businesses, and from his political activities. California Democrats earnestly hope that there will be an increasing amount of the old F.D.R. radio magic on the 6:45 p.m. spots.

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