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ROBERT J. BRAIDWOOD Chicago...
Just Fun. In Kansas City, Mrs. Betty West and Mrs. Marian Braidwood went shopping, reported that they saw successively pour out of a department store: 1) a wave of women, 2) a rat, 3) a woman who wailed ". . . he's a pet, he's just having fun," and crammed the rat back into her pocketbook...
...name? . . . Boys, break it up and let this lovely vision come through. That's it, dear. What's your name?" New Yorkers who recalled his famed sidewalk interviews from Times Square ("Step up, brother, stop your mad rush to the grave") recognized the voice of brassy George Braidwood ("The Real") McCoy, radio buttonholer extraordinary (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940). They found out last week that Private McCoy was now playing the six-station American Expeditionary radio circuit in North Africa...
...polyglot station is Manhattan's WHOM. Over its 1,000-watt transmitter are regularly aired programs in German, Italian, Polish, Greek, assorted other languages. But six times a week, near the end of its broadcasting day, WHOM goes enthusiastically native with George Braidwood ("The Real") McCoy and his sidewalk interviews from Times Square. Jut-jawed and sardonic, McCoy is a 36-year-old Harlem Irishman who got into radio via publicity, after working as swimming instructor, peddling Easter-egg dyes and canned clams...
What brought the Pratt affair to the surface were the tattlings of one Ernest S. Braidwood, a Customs agent discharged for 'legging who joined with the Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey to block the reappointment of Col. Arthur F. Foran as Comptroller of Customs in New York. Rev. James K. Shields, the N. J. League's local chief, procured from Braidwood an affidavit which he forwarded to President Hoover as an argument against Col. Foran's reappointment. The League opposes this official because in 1928 he was reputed to have said that he would vote...