 Complete the following phrase:  He was now sent to work for the legendary sports reporter, , who sent him to spend the next four weeks with the archives, mastering the basic elements of sport. Baiers first live broadcasting involved covering the sports news. From April 1944 he was also assigned the mid afternoon 15.00 army reports. His six months as an intern ended at the end of the month and, still aged only seventeen and a half, he received an employment contract. For June 1944 his name was added the news-readers rota, delivering the morning 07.00 news for the first time on 1 June 1944, freshly minted, direct from the Propaganda Ministry. Less than two months later on 20 July 1944, it was Baier who read on the early evening news 18.32 the first radio report of the 