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Alan ("The Beard") Kent and Austen Herbert ("Ginger") Johnson sold a singing commercial to Pillsbury Flour Mills Co. Scheduled for a late August debut, it is the latest product of a partnership that has made them kings of jingle. It is scored for 23 brass instruments, a Hammond organ and a male voice. The miniature cantata runs for one minute. Excerpts...
...Organized Seduction." Alan Kent is a 32-year-old former salesman from Chicago who had moved into radio announcing and comedy when Austen Johnson met him in Manhattan's NBC offices in 1935. Dressy Austen Johnson was born in England in 1909, is vague about what he did between then and the '30s when he began arranging BBC musical programs including one of sweet tunes which he called "Organized Seduction." In 1935 he sailed to the U.S. to do a program for NBC. He was not much impressed with Alan Kent, who had been recommended...
...Thelma Cazalet Keir, veteran Tory reformist and sister of the late Major Victor Cazalet, killed in the plane crash that brought death to Poland's Premier-General Wladyslaw Sikorski. Mildly she proposed an amendment granting equal pay to women teachers. Gently the Government's respected Richard Austen Butler, President of the Board of Education, objected that equal pay had nothing to do with the Education Bill, should be considered at some other time...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. invented the word anaesthesia (1846); Jane Austen gets credit for the first recorded use of baseball, in Northanger Abbey...
...State Department's broad-beamed, broad-minded Ralph Edmond Turner, a brilliant and experienced educator. He will sit as an observer with the representatives of ten other United Nations (and the still unofficial observers of Russia, China, India, the British Dominions). Chairman is British education chief Richard Austen Butler...