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When Shirley and her mother went to Hollywood two months ago, the child ventriloquist had eight months of weekly radio behind her. A shy, quiet little girl, she used her brash puppet to say the things she could not bring herself to say. Eddie Cantor hired her ($100 weekly) the first time he heard...
Last week, true to tradition, another Churchill had added his say about how Britain should be governed. He was the Prime Minister's brash and volatile son, Major Randolph Churchill, an M.P. for the Lancashire cotton-weaving town of Preston, who was on one of his leaves from duty in Egypt...
...Johns Hopkins) in 1867. Nobody took his thunderings very seriously, not even Professor Gilman; he eventually accepted nine honorary LL.D.s himself. Today U.S. colleges and universities hand out some 1,300 honorary degrees a year, four times as many as in Gilman 's day. Last week a brash young scholar proposed wholesale reforms in this big little business...
...Brash, bumptious Henry Morgan loves nothing more than to curdle the milk of radio's sacred cows. On his 15-minute comic stint, Here's Morgan (WOR, 6:45 p.m., E.W.T., Mon. through Fri.), he worries the stuffing from many a radio shirtfront, mocks soap operas, commercials, himself, his station. Last week he went to work on Mutual in a big way. Out over WOR, Mutual's Manhattan outlet, went a startling satire-a monologue on "The Strange Disappearance of the Mutual Network." Listeners heard razor-edged remarks on Mutual's recent loss of The Lone...
Enter McNear. One of the few is big, brash George Plummer McNear Jr., 50, president of the Toledo, Peoria & Western R.R. An individualist to the last ounce of his 200 lb., Railroader McNear has fought the Brotherhood rules for 15 years. But he finally ran into the U.S. Government. After a bloody three-month strike last winter, the U.S. Government kicked him out of office, seized...