found: Wikipedia, April 16, 2014(John Crosby (media critic); newspaper columnist, radio-television critic, novelist and TV host; during the 1950s, he was generally regarded as the leading critic of television; born May 18, 1912 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Crosby attended Yale but left wiithout a degree; in 1933, he was a reporter with The Milwaukee Sentinel, moving on to The New York Herald Tribune (1935-1941); during World War II, he spent five years with the Army News Service, rising to the rank of Captain; in the post-WWII years, he returned to the Herald Tribune and began writing about radio, widening his horizon to television in 1952; that same year, his book-length collection of columns, Out of the Blue, was published; he became one of the first media critics to host a television show: the Emmy-winning anthology series The Seven Lively Arts, on CBS (1957-1958); from 1965 to 1975 he was a columnist for the British weekly, The Observer; in 1977, he moved to a farm outside Esmont, Virginia, and turned to writing suspense novels, including Men in Arms (1983); he died of cancer on September 7, 1991 in Esmont)