New Photo of John T. Frye
Reader George Cohn sent me a photo of John T. Frye that I had not seen before. It's from the May, 1948 issue of Radio News, which contained the second installment of his very long-running "Mac's Service Shop" column. Assuming the photo was recent when published, Frye would have been 38.
For those who don't recognize his name, John T. Frye was the author of the Carl & Jerry educational stories from Popular Electronics, "Phone Phunnies" from QST, and a whole metric passel of other things in other places, including two books on tube-era radio servicing that from what I can tell have passed into the public domain. See my article on Frye and his creations Carl & Jerry. I republished all 119 stories in five books several years ago (plus one new storyI wrote myself, and another one from the late George Ewing WA8WTE) and they're still selling. Frye was a paraplegic who never walked, and how he did what he did in his life is one of the great success stories of disabled people who just didn't let anything get them down. Legs? We don't need no steenking legs!