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When radio needs a new voice-from a barnyard cackle to a French maestro-it is apt to call on Mel Blanc, the "one-man-crowd." Until this week, when radio's unsung bit players and stooges were finally honored by Hall of Fame (ABC, Sun., 6-6:30 p.m., E.S.T.), few listeners knew Mel by name. But millions probably knew him as Jack Benny's English butler, train announcer, parrot, French violin teacher and news reporter; as Burns & Allen's melancholy postman; as Judy Canova's Pedro, Salesman Roscoe Wortle and a chronic hiccougher...
...tonsils are frequently more highly prized than its brains, Mel's flexible voice is often called in to save an otherwise disastrous show. He can portray 57 different characters, often does eight or ten on a single program. Once the record turntable for sound effects failed. Blanc stepped up to the mike and, using only his voice, squealed like a skidding auto and did a corking good imitation of a bottle being opened and poured. For Warner Bros.'s cartoons, he is the voice of Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny...
When the munitions ship Mont Blanc exploded in the harbor of Halifax, N.S. on Dec. 6, 1917, the shock was felt more than 150 miles away. The explosion killed more than 1,100, laid waste two square miles of the city. The Mont Blanc carried 3,000 tons of TNT. The single atomic bomb which fell on Hiroshima in Japan this week exploded with approximately seven times the force of that tremendous charge...
Postwar Plans. In San Francisco, waiting out the war and trying to keep track of her family, is Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner,* who was born Adele Blanc, in New Orleans, but moved to Kentucky "when she was a quadruped." Her elder son, Simon Bolivar III, is a captain in the Signal Corps in France, her younger son, William Claiborne, a plebe at West Point. The daughter, Mary, is studying at the University of California...
...HAROLD P. LA BLANC...