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...Langford, Sportscaster Bill Stern, Newscaster Lowell Thomas, Studio Announcer Don Wilson. Favorite dramatic program: Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theatre; favorite children's program: Nila Mack's Let's Pretend; favorite quarter-hour: Fred Waring's. Outstanding 1939 star: blind British Piano Wag Alec Templeton...
...Billy Hull," in the local estimate, "was as rough as a porcupine." Trigger-tempered, 140-lb. little Billy had a friend, Alec Smith; two enemies, Brothers Jim & Dave Stepp. One day Alec Smith and Billy Hull were at the mountain farmhouse of a neighbor named Cindy Lovelace when the Stepps rode up, started shooting. Smith fell dead. A bullet hit Billy Hull between the nose and the right eye, came out the back of his head to lodge in his collar. He dropped. The Stepps dashed over to finish him but, says a family chronicler, "Cindy wrapped her apron around...
Last week Alec Templeton Time (NBC-Red) was the up-and-comer of the new 1939 radio shows. In two months it had won some 6,000,000 listeners. Blind, brilliant Alec Templeton's charm is no secret; his musical lampoons spare nobody, from his keyboard come chuckles for all. Once he put on an accent like Music Master Walter Damrosch's, piano-lectured theme by theme on Three Little Fishies. He embroiders five-note themes tossed up by audiences until they sound like Wagner. His Bach Goes to Town, a swing classic, is now part...
...times, follows them during broadcasts by touch-cues, called "zicks," given by his manager, Stanley North. North puts his right hand on Templeton's left shoulder, squeezes when he is to speak or play, whispers the first few words of each speech. To speed his playing North presses Alec's left shoulder with his forefinger; to slow him down, the forefinger is drawn across his back. After a particularly fine job, North pats Alec's left coat pocket. Thus far, Alec has never missed a cue, has had his pocket patted often...
...even so versatile a genius as Alec Templeton can hold 6,000,000 radio listeners for a full half hour. So Alec Templeton Time employs guest stars, an orchestra under Symphonist Daniel Saiden-berg, a 16-voice chorus, and, for the last month an Old Country crowd pleaser named James Patrick Rudolph Francis O'Malley...