Early in his adult life, Wing worked as a reporter on the
Chicago Tribune, after which he began working on radio. His responsibilities included writing scripts for
Fred Allen and
Phil Baker. By 1936, the program was available in syndication by NBC's
Thesaurus transcription service. Wing was also NBC's director of children's programs. As "NBC's spelling master" he also had the
Spelling Bee program, which began on NBC-Red in 1937. In the mid-1940s, Wing made children's recordings for RCA Victor. A 1949 recording of the story
The Little Engine That Could narrated by Wing was inducted to the
National Recording Registry in 2009. Wing was captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942. He survived the
Bataan Death March and was later rescued in the
Raid at Cabanatuan by
U.S. Army Rangers and
Filipino guerillas, a story told in
The Great Raid (2005). Paul Wing died in May 1957, in a veteran's hospital in
Portsmouth, Virginia, following a coronary. ==Filmography==