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Gloomy Evening. The bait that lured Benny to the younger network (beginning Jan. 2) was the same bait that, two months ago, detached Amos 'n' Andy from NBC (TIME, Sept. 20). Reports in the trade said that CBS offered a sizable (but undisclosed) salary for Benny's services. CBS would only confirm that it had bought his program for "somewhat more than...
Sixteen years ago, when Herb Shriner was a gangling Indiana schoolboy, radio's top comedians were Fred Allen, Amos 'n' Andy, and Jack Benny. Today, the aging comedians are still on top, but Herb Shriner, as gangling as ever at 30, is their newest competitor...
...ready to go to jail." He thought he'd see a doctor. He thought he would go see New York's Boxing Commissioner Eddie Eagan and try to get Eddie to lift his supension (for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer two years ago). He was really lonesome fighting anywhere but in Madison Square Garden, which was "just like my own bedroom." He was pretty proud of one thing: that he didn't go on with his match with Apostoli and take a dive. "I could have picked up the change [about...
...national anthem) at the inaugural of the State of Israel in May, the orchestra has given 70 concerts, 23 of them on the road. Actually the orchestra is older than the state; it was known as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra when Arturo Toscanini led its first performance twelve years ago. Tel Aviv's Ohel Shem hall, where the orchestra usually plays, holds only 1,100. There the orchestra repeats each concert nine times to accommodate the crowds. It has played on, undismayed by blackouts, air raids, or the impertinent obbligato of small arms fire. In July another American guest...
...bluntest words to the medicos came from Dr. Herbert Ratner, head of the Student Health Service at Loyola University School of Medicine. Dr. Ratner, a Jew converted to Roman Catholicism nine years ago, accused modern medical schools of sinking to a "veterinarian level by studying man as if he were a horse instead of a human being with a spirit . . . We see nature as violated, when modern man as the result of medical propaganda goes through life fearing death [and] ends up as a vitamin-taking, antacid-consuming, barbiturate-sedated, aspirin-alleviated, weed-habituated, benzedrine-stimulated, psychosomatically-diseased, surgically-despoiled...