Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chattanooga a want ad summarized the local situation: "WANTED: Registered druggist-young or old, deaf or dumb. Must have license and walk without crutches. Apply Cloverleaf Drug Store...
...gets ruffled. Before he turned broadcaster he was an all-round athlete at Alabama U. (nickname: "The Skyrocket") and a semi-pro ballplayer. He is one of the most versatile and accurate U.S. sportscasters. When he reads from a script, his voice has no particular accent, but when he ad libs it comes straight from Dixie. Probable yearly earnings: above...
Highest Crossley-rated Mrs. Know-it-all is a short, voluble bit of human voltage named Bessie Beatty,* a onetime San Francisco newspaper reporter, writer for women's magazines and editor of McCall's. From rough notes, busy Bessie ad libs over Mutual's WOR (11:15-12) on food, books, fashion, war news, people, places. Sometimes she gets kidded by Announcer Dick Willard and Husband Bill Sauter, a quiet, wisecracking ex-actor who contributes a felicitous conjugal note that draws plaintive queries from mismated listeners. Sometimes Bessie whips up half a program with prominent guest interviewees...
Crosby needles Astaire ("That'll be easy, like peeling a turtle"), makes sage love to the heroine (Marjorie Reynolds), ad libs at will, takes time out to kid one of his own recordings ("Sing it, sing it pretty!"). Two of the picture's best new songs (Berlin threw in Easter Parade and Lazy for good measure) are his: Abraham, a solid swing spiritual for Lincoln's birthday, and Let's Start the New Year Right, which does...
...Orson Welles prepared to return to Hollywood from Brazil (TIME, July 20) the following ad, signed by RKO's Brazilian manager, appeared in Rio de Janeiro papers: "RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., established in New York, U.S.A., hereby declares it will not assume responsibility for any acts committed by Orson Welles in Brazil...