(The Billboard, 1 December 1951, page 52)[4] In 1941, Lewis built the station for and licensed WINC, an ABC affiliate, in Winchester, Virginia.
[6] In the early 1950s, Richard F. Lewis, Jr., hired Whittaker Chambers briefly at WINC—the first work Chambers got after he had left TIME magazine in December 1948 (as the Hiss Case turned from HUAC hearings in Washington, a slander suit in Baltimore, and a grand jury investigation in New York into a federal case against Alger Hiss).
Only a handful of dairy farmers, up for the morning milking, heard John Richard "Radio" Gill announce the birth of WAGE, then 1290 (now 1200) on your AM dial...
He had worked for WPPA in Pottsville, Pa., and WFMD in Frederick, Md., and ran a radio and electrical repair shop on King Street in Leesburg.
[1][2] In addition to surviving radio stations, in 1992 his wife founded the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts, which offers scholarships for Northern Shenandoah Valley students.