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radio program, heard by millions on the coast-to-coast broadcast until 1958. Whitney was on other Los
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where he also played football. He began taking piano lessons at age 14 and advanced rapidly, soon studying organ under prominent theater organist
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program in the mornings with little sleep. In the 1940s, he was organist at
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