Word: alcott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connecticut audiences Poet-Professor Odell Shepard, Pulitzer-Prize biographer (Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott) who quit lecturing at Trinity College to campaign for Lieutenant Governor, sang a political ditty called Old Connecticut Is Coming, F. D. R. He called it an orphan, but it looked like his child. Cracked his Republican opponent, tall, suave Dr. James Lukens McConaughy, who is not only Lieutenant Governor but president of Wesleyan too: "If the State wants a Lieutenant Governor who can serve as its poet laureate, count...
Wherever English is spoken in China, Alcott is an aerial "must." At 8 in the morning, at 1 p.m. and at 10:15 at night, an audience estimated at well over 250,000 gathers around radios in barrooms, homes, hotels and missionary outposts to listen to his breezy newscasting. He provides bootleg radio fare for such Japanese centres as Mukden, Dairen and Nanking, is heard in embassies at Tokyo and Peking. Droll and irreverent, Alcott airs all Japanese protests against his show, constantly cracks at a pair of typical Japanese named "Mr. Suzuki" and "Mr. Watanabe," whom he uses...
...embittered Japanese began operating a maverick transmitter from Shanghai's Astor House Hotel, which set up a terrible clatter whenever Alcott began to broadcast. Alcott told about it. The Japanese denied it. Alcott told the number of the hotel room where it was housed. Finally the Japanese turned their transmitter over to some Shanghai Nazis. Nowadays all Japanese ships in China waters have instructions to turn on their radio buzzers when Alcott goes on the air, but even when combined with land station jamming, the din they set up is not overly effective except in downtown Shanghai...
...Alcott is commercially as well as politically potent in the Far East. He plugs Jell-O and Maxwell House Coffee for General Foods all over the China Coast. His offers of recipe books in exchange for boxtops have attracted responses from spots 1,700 miles from Shanghai. His fan mail runs to some 500 letters a month, including morbid epistles from moody Japanese...
Early this year the Japanese attempted to give Alcott a physical tossing around. Jap terrorists tried to drag him out of a rickshaw in the American Defense Zone of the International Settlement, but he escaped through an alley. Since then he has used a Packard with bulletproof glass, toted a gun. Busy as a bird dog, Alcott serves as cable editor of the China Press between broadcasts, improvises his scripts from news flashes that come over his desk. Married recently to a White Russian he met in the Settlement, Alcott is thinking of settling down. If the Japs...