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The "Hoosier Humorist" of radio and television
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Herbert Arthur Schriner was born in Toledo, Ohio, on May 29, 1918, and moved to Fort Wayne as a small child with his mother; Fort Wayne is where he was raised. He took up the harmonica in grade school and formed a harmonica quintet at Central High School that grew into an octet. From the harmonica he moved into homespun comedy monologues about Indiana life, which made him a national figure as the "Hoosier Humorist": he hosted Herb Shriner Time on CBS Radio in 1948–49 and the television game show Two for the Money, on NBC from 1952 and then CBS through 1956. In 1955 he organized the Herb Shriner Harmonica Orchestra. He and his wife were killed in a car crash near Delray Beach, Florida, on April 23, 1970.
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Sources: Indiana Historical Society, Traces magazine; Indiana Music Makers.