{{Short description|American radio broadcaster}} '''Seymour "Pinky" Kravitz''' (July 11, 1927 – October 31, 2015)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/obituaries/kravitz-seymour-pinky/article_6e197bbc-26d0-5eed-84cc-b2a48d1b88a7.html|title=Kravitz,Seymour "Pinky|work=Press of Atlantic City|date=3 November 2015 }}</ref> was an Atlantic City, New Jersey based American radio broadcaster and print journalist. He was known simply as "Pinky," and he reportedly refused to answer to his given name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/communities/atlantic-city_pleasantville_brigantine/longtime-broadcaster-pinky-kravitz-dead-at/article_dd9e0c48-8027-11e5-a34b-a381e653c563.html|title=Longtime broadcaster Pinky Kravitz dead at 88|work=Press of Atlantic City|date=November 2015 }}</ref>
Kravitz was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia and moved to Atlantic City as a child, where he attended Atlantic City High School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/11/atlantic_city_radio_legend_pinky_kravitz_dead_at_8.html|title=Atlantic City radio legend Pinky Kravitz dead at 88|work=NJ.com|date=2 November 2015}}</ref> He attended New York University on a basketball scholarship.<ref name=NYT1988/>
He hosted ''Pinky's Corner'' on WOND-AM from an array of Atlantic City locations from 1958 until a few months before his death, which followed heart surgery, in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/31/new-jersey-radio-host-pinky-kravitz-dead-at-88/|title=Longtime New Jersey radio host Pinky Kravitz dead at 88|work=The Washington Times}}</ref> He also hosted ''WMGM-TV Presents Pinky!'' for years on WMGM-TV-40 in Atlantic City and penned columns for many periodicals including for ''The Press of Atlantic City''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://6abc.com/news/longtime-new-jersey-radio-host-pinky-kravitz-dead-at-88/1062397/|title=Longtime New Jersey radio host Pinky Kravitz dead at 88|work=6abc Philadelphia|date=November 2015}}</ref>
Kravitz was a resident of Ventnor City, New Jersey.<ref name=NYT1988>Parisi, Albert J. [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/10/nyregion/his-beat-is-the-city-s-pulse.html "His Beat Is the City's Pulse"], ''The New York Times'', July 10, 1988. Accessed August 8, 2018. "Some call him 'Mr. Atlantic City,' others just 'Pinky,' but no matter where he's spotted in this resort, Seymour Kravitz is as much a legend as a local tradition.... At 6 feet 5 inches tall, slim and well tanned, the 60-year-old Ventnor resident is an imposing figure with a boyish smile."</ref>
In 2017, Kravitz was honored and memorialized with a plaque on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/166905/late-wond-a-atlantic-city-host-pinky-kravitz-honor|title = Late WOND-A/Atlantic City Host Pinky Kravitz Honored with Plaque on Boardwalk}}</ref>
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