Book: On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio
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A rumor persists that Kato was Japanese until the events of Dec. 7, 1941, when abruptly he became Filipino. This seems to be false, as Kato was described as a Filipino of Japanese descent at least two years earlier. As for Britt Reid, he was seen in the early days as a playboy, a clever disguise for his true personality. He was the worry of his father's life. So concerned was old Dan Reid that his son would be a frivolous man that Britt was installed as publisher of the Reid family business, a newspaper called the Daily Sentinel. With the job came a bodyguard and overseer, one Michael Axford, former cop and dumbest of all dumb Irishmen. Axford was plucked whole cloth from another Trendle melodrama, Warner Lester, Manhunter, which Trendle was discontinuing. Later, Axford would become a Sentinel reporter, though he remained throughout the series a voice without a brain. Axford's goal in life was to "captuure the Haarnet," but in truth he had trouble catching a streetcar. book-quote
