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Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

Marshall McLuhan

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Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
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