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...next two or three months, ran the apology, Burma's rainy season will virtually cut off the road anyhow, and perhaps after that time the situation will be changed and Britain can revise the agreement. But in a less sanguine vein News Chronicle's, Vernon Bartlett wrote: "The British Government is now about to give some help to Japan to defeat China in order that Japan may then be free to play an active part on the side of Germany and Italy...
When Idaho oldtimers last fortnight took a good look at the murals in Boise's new courthouse, they were fit to be tied. The murals, by R. G. Bartlett and Los Angeles WPA workers, showed a cabin on the Oregon Trail-with boarded gables and white New England picket fence; a sissy trapper standing by while an Indian seized his horse. "That may be good art but it isn't true to nature," yelped angry Probate Judge John Jackson. "Any trapper who let an Indian get that close to his horse would be ostracized as unworthy...
...putting together The Missus Goes to Market, Bartlett employs the same technique, substituting for the Guild as the locale for his giddy interviews grocery stores in Chicago and Midwest towns. Collecting 75 to 125 housewives before his mike in a store, Bartlett grills them on such topics as whether they kissed their husbands the first time they met, rewards them with autographed soap boxes for responding. Also aired as a recording, it is assured an audience of housewives, eager to hear how they sound on the radio...
...Although Bartlett is the glamor boy of the Missus shows, he had nothing to do with their confection. They were thought up in 1934 by Thomas Kivlan, then star salesman for WBBM, now an advertising executive. Tommie Bartlett was just an announcer when he was tapped to take over his gruelling assignment...
...Missus Goes to Market opened 10,000 new outlets for Automatic Soap Flakes. Similarly successful, Meet the Missus has attracted a million requests for a card game advertised on the program, and pulls 3,000 letters a week. Reveling in his success with the matrons, young Tommie Bartlett earns $22,000 a year, lives handsomely in a duplex apartment on Lake Shore Drive. A feature of almost every berry, corn and apple festival around Chicago, Bachelor Tommie has so far received 20 proposals of marriage, inherited $5,000 from one mike-struck listener. A little uncertain about...