sentences:  He entered broadcasting as a news commentator with WCAU in Philadelphia in 1930, initially as the announcer for a rugby game, getting the job by default as he was the only person WCAU's director knew who was familiar with the sport.In 1931, he became the narrator for Hearst-Metrotone newsreels.He rose to fame as a broadcast journalist when he covered the Lindbergh kidnapping trial, beginning in 1932.