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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lost on Duty. Captain Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker, 52, flying ace of World War I, head of Eastern Air Lines; on an Army inspection flight; somewhere in the Pacific...
...mustached museum man had had on his mind the matter of Samuel P. Langley v. the Wright Brothers. The world regards Wilbur and Orville Wright as the country's true airplane pioneers, but Langley, onetime Smithsonian secretary, has been the Institution's choice as the A-1 ace. In the Institution Langley's plane was labeled the first capable of making a sustained flight carrying a man. Finally Orville Wright got so mad about it that in 1928 he sent the original Kitty Hawk machine to a London museum. Kindly Dr. Abbot, naturally perturbed at the loss...
Laughcasters Goodman and Jane Ace picked up a copy of Variety last month and got a surprise. They learned that their sponsor (Anacin Tablets) would move them this week from the Blue Network to CBS. To any other radio headliners such a surprise would have been unbelievable, but not for them. For the casual Aces, who, for twelve years, have led merry, muddled fictional lives as The Easy Aces, it was quite natural...
They took it lightly as they take their whole program-even its scripting, which Ace does himself. Unlike Fred Allen (who overmodestly says Goodman Ace is America's greatest wit), Goodman Ace burns no midnight oil, drips no sweat. He usually tosses off a script in an hour and a half. His cigars give him a convenient yardstick: a one-cigar script is apt to be terrific, a two-or three-cigar script fair, a four-cigar script a stinkaroo. Rehearsals are similarly carefree. A light once-over usually suffices. Anything more than that, Goodman Ace insists, kills...
Bespectacled, sandy-haired Goodman Ace was a drama critic on a Kansas City newspaper in 1930, eking out his small salary with some local weekly broadcasts. (One was called Where's a Good Show?, another consisted of reading the funnies.) One day, as he was ending a broadcast, a studio director shoved a hastily scribbled note under his nose: he would have to fill in for the next 15 minutes. Ace signaled his wife, who was in the studio, spent the next quarter-hour in goofy, unrehearsed chatter with Jane, about a bridge game the night before...