Chauncey howell biography of william hill
Chauncey attended Easton Public Schools and graduated from Amherst College with a degree in Classics..
Bill graduated cum laude from Amherst in He had enlisted in and saw action in Luzon, Philippines, as an infantry officer.
First, those Dodger rascals desert Brooklyn; then, the legendary Times Square cabbies lose their garrulous affability, and finally, even the mayoral “How’m I doin’?” runs out of charm. But something of the natural, quirky singularity that used to be New York remains in the person of Chauncey Howell, a willing and most genuine idiosyncrat who has planted a foothold on the collective affections of Manhattan, not to mention the Bronx, and Staten Island, too.
With an eye for the unfamiliar (or for the familiar made new) and his WABC television cameraman by his side, Howell trucks through the metropolitan boroughs and beyond to cover essentially undercovered chunks of New York life for Channel 7’s “Eyewitness News.” (His segments air between 5 and 6 p.m.
most weekdays).
The three-minute vignettes are actually little movies. Howell first selects the subjects, then writes, produces and presents them. They can range from an everyday sort of featur