Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week. New Dealing Columnist Samuel Grafton mocked: "Poor Mr. Truman . . . an object for pity." The New Dealing Chicago Sun ran a merciless cartoon in clay (see cut). The lowest blow came from that low-blow expert, the Chicago Tribune. Squinting at the President, the Tribune pretended to see Edgar Bergen's Mortimer Snerd. Sample dialogue...
...estimate the number of telephone subscribers tuned in to any show. No attempt was made to learn what they thought of the broadcast. The fact of listening was enough. Soon, "Crossleys" were used as defense for programs good & bad. But even top stars like Jack Benny and Edgar Bergen worried more about their "Crossleys" than their hairlines...
Ever since Fred Allen joined Benny, Bergen, McGee & Hope, no rival network has been able to break NBC's hammer lock on humor. Last week, little ABC weighed in a promising challenger: droll, deadpan Henry Morgan. His first coast-to-coast half hour (Tues., 8:30-9 p.m., E.D.S.T.) was the freshest and funniest new show in years. Morgan's secret weapon: a needle that tickles...
...Edgar Bergen (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Start of another season for Charlie McCarthy & friend...
Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). A summer sub for Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen, the pixyish blind pianist features his musical satires and spontaneous improvisations...