We've Cut the Appian Way to Rome

Gabriel Heatter was an American radio commentator whose World War II-era sign-on, "There's good news tonight," became both his catchphrase and his caricature.

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“We've Cut the Appian Way to Rome.” Gabriel Heatter. Radio broadcast, January 24, 1944.