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...your husband had a long grey beard, would you want him to sleep with it under or over the cover?" Posing questions like this to Chicago housewives, redhaired, babyfaced, 26-year-old Tommie Bartlett has become the guiding star of two of the cutest, corniest radio programs in the U. S. Known as Meet the Missus and The Missus Goes to Market, the Bartlett shows are broadcast from recordings each morning except Sunday over station WBBM, potently plug the virtues of Kitchen Klenzer, Big Jack Soap, Automatic Soap Flakes. Last week, in a lather of success, Tommie Bartlett was airing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Meet the Missus | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

Unorthodox in the extreme is Bartlett's method of gathering material for his programs. Every day promptly at 2:05 he whirls into the Chicago Home Arts Guild, an institution supported by national advertisers, to lunch and show 100-odd women the sponsors' 100-odd products. Tommie shouts "Hello, girls!" at the assembled matrons. Ten minutes later, after the girls are all in spasms at Tommie, who thinks nothing of rolling on the floor to get them giggling, WBBM technicians begin to record Meet the Missus. Twittering like sparrows, yanking nervously at their girdles, some of Tommie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Meet the Missus | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Rock, H. W. Dwight Rudd, Philip H. Sherwood, David R. Sigourney, Joseph P. Spang, Jr., Henry S. Strurgis, Ernest G. Swigert, William S. Draper, Roger C. Fenn, John S. Fleek, Robert T. Gannett, Joseph Garland, James M. Graham, Reginald Gray, S. Eliot Guild, R. Cushing Hamlen, Huntington R. Hardwick, Bartlett Harwood, Lawrence Hemenway, Edwin H. Heminway, Christian A. Herter, Leverett F. Hooper, John K. Howard, Coleman Jennings, Devereux C. Josephs, Malcolm J. Logan, John P. Marquand, Charles E. Mead, Benry H. Mayer, Edward S. Munro...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 185 ALUMNI MARSHALS, AIDS, JUNIOR USHERS ANNOUNCED | 6/12/1940 | See Source »

...addition, Medical School scholarships totaling $1,300, for study next academic year, were awarded as follows: Matthew and Mary E. Bartlett scholarship to James P. Dixon, Jr., of Yellow Springs, Ohio; S.B. Antioch '39. Abraham A. Watson scholarship to Lytt I. Gardner, of Reidsville, N.C.; A.M. University of North Carolina '40. Isaac Sweetzer scholarship to Frank E. Trobaugh, Jr., of West Frankfort, Ill.; A.B. University of Illinois...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MED SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED TO THREE | 6/9/1940 | See Source »

...revelry shall shriek through hallowed halls until the first vestiges of dawn. In other words, in an effort to laugh down the sinister smirk of finals, Leverett House is throwing a dance. For some trivial sum, you will be able to prance and dance to the music of Kent Bartlett and watch a smooth, suave exhibition of what should be (but ain't) done on the dance floor...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

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