Q: Was Herb Morrison, the radio reporter who became so emotional watching the Hindenburg disaster, fired afterward for getting so upset?
- V.D., Weehawken, N.J.
A: No, quite the opposite. Morrison became famous when his report on the May 6, 1937, airship crash was broadcast coast-to-coast the next day.
At the time, the 31-year-old radio reporter was working for WLS in Chicago. He and an engineer went to the Hindenburg's Lakehurst, N.J., landing site to experiment with recording a live event.
Although Morrison's "Oh, the humanity" eyewitness account was not aired live, it became the first recorded news report to be broadcast nationally by the NBC radio network.
The reporter went on to jobs in New York and Pittsburgh before developing the radio-TV department at West Virginia University in the 1960s. He died in 1989 at age 83.
Q: How could I get in touch with Celine Dion? She has a beautiful voice and is very sweet.
- G.D., Worcester, Mass.
A: Write to Dion in care of Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wil-shire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. To send e-mail, visit the singer's World Wide Web site at (www.celineonline.com).
Dion, who turned 30 on March 30, is a native of Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada. She's a three-time Grammy winner and has sold more than 50 million albums.
A bit of diva trivia: Dion didn't speak English until age 21.
Q: What was the name of Stoney Burke's sidekick who was played by Warren Oates?
- D.M., Peoria, Ill.
A: Oates played Vesper "Ves" Painter on the "Stoney Burke" TV series, which aired from 1962 to 1963.
Jack Lord portrayed the title character in the modern-day western about rodeo cowboys. An Internet fan site states, "Ves gets most of the good lines."
A World Wide Web site devoted to the series can be found at (scc.net/(TILDE)heather/stoney.html).