Comings and Goings My mother got me the job. I was barely seventeen and playing in the navy band. The war was on and she thought if I got a job in radio, I'd stay home. Art McDonald hired me in 1942 and the first program I ever announced was "The Merry Makers" a home grown version of what Don Messer did later." When Loman was eighteen, he confounded his Mother by joining the Navy but after his overseas service he came back to broadcasting. Bill Brown , back from the Army, was covering the races from the Charlottetown and Paul Williams and Loman would go along as a team. Art McDonald would do vivid descriptions from the track between heats until 1945, when he became so ill he was unable to do the Old Home Week Races. It was a sad time for everyone. Art wanted desperately to do the races but he was just too weak. He wrote in his daily journal, "Last day at work. Summer, 1945". John MacEwen and Loman McAulay were sent out to the track to do what Art had always done, "color". Paul was the technician. They described the crowd, the weather, the whole "scene in general as well as doing interviews with horsemen and visiting celebrities. Art McDonald had been a master at this and a most popular figure on the air and it was a difficult spot to be in. Art at that time was a patient at the Provincial Sanitarium and they knew he was listening along with thousands of fans all over the . L. A "Art' McDonald. 145