Post-World War II Years
On returning to Kansas City, Storck rejoined WDAF and again became a newscaster but soon moved on to become a member of the staff of T. R. Finn & Associates, a Kansas City company, as its publicity director. He was assistant director of education and organization for the Consumers Cooperative Association from 1947 to 1949 and was public relations director and assistant manager of the North Kansas City Development Company in 1949 and 1950. He was also a semi-professional actor in local radio, television, civic theater, and in films made in the Kansas City area. Storck's first wife, the former Barbara Marsh, died of bulbar polio in 1950. He later established a Barbara Storck Memorial award for poetry at the University of Kansas City in her memory.
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