Word: ace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell them how to do things," mumbled Goodman Ace (he had a six-inch Dunhill cigar in his mouth), "and they say yes, and don't do them. They won't ever learn until some day when all the people will get fed up and turn off all the radios...
...Ace, 47, makes a very good living as CBS's curator of comedy, but he doesn't approve of radio. Longtime writer-director-co-star of Easy Aces, he is an expert on the medium he loves to pan: "Now take the rating system. That's the stupidest thing I ever heard of. What do you think would happen if a drama critic said Finian's Rainbow was a good, solid 10.4?" In the old days, Ace scornfully poohpoohed Easy Aces' consistently low Hooperating by explaining that "the people who are listening...
...Easy Life. For the past year Ace, who looks and talks a good bit like Jack Benny, has been CBS's No. 1 doctor for sick comedy and variety programs ("I wanted the office space"). When a sponsor doesn't like a CBS show, Troubleshooter Ace is called in to patch it up. When CBS wants something new, Ace and a staff of four writers go to work. He is pretty discouraged at the moment over his efforts of the past few months. The Ace-originated CBS Was There (TIME, Aug. 4) was abandoned after seven weeks...
When Easy Aces, radio's earliest and sharpest husband & wife program, finally went off the air in 1944, after 14^ years and some 2,400 broadcasts, Goodman and wife Jane decided to watch the ponies and take life easy for awhile. But within six months, Goodie was back in radio, earning just about the top dollar for a writer ($3,000 weekly) as Danny Kaye's chief scripter. When Kaye left for Hollywood, Ace quit again...
Jake found that Roche's theories worked. Sample: when running to the left sideline, never hit the ball down the line unless you are trying for an ace-it gives your opponent too big an angle for a cross-court return...