text:  I'm Greg Bell, and at the time of that broadcast, Dick Beals, who played Yorkie, was actually 26 years old. With a permanent pre-adolescent voice, he was an in-demand radio actor, playing young boy characters for decades. Beals was also a top cartoon voice actor. He also played Speedy in the Alka-Seltzer commercials, and Davey in the Davey and Goliath religious-themed animated series broadcast in the 1960s.