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Still calling attention to her brass-trumpet voice, her buck teeth and her knobby arms & legs, Cass Daley last week became radio's most popular comedienne.* The Fitch Co. is busy revising its Sunday night show (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m., E.S.T.) to play up Cass, play down the guest orchestras...
...daffy Daley was clowning on the four-a-day before anybody had heard very much of such loudmouths as Martha Raye and Betty Hutton. When the Fitch Bandwagon hired Cass as a summer replacement in 1945, the radio studio was filled with her admirers. To gain these old fans, Cass had to start young (she is only...
...Cass was a self-conscious girl trying desperately to be pretty. To hide her too-prominent teeth, she pressed her upper lip well down as she sang. Kinsella kept coming to hear her and tried to coach her back into the uninhibited comedy of her childhood. When she insisted on singing with a small mouth he dropped a plate in the middle of her act. Kinsella became so fascinated with the case of Cass that he gave up the insurance business, became Cass's manager, married...
...Cass Timberlane, the story of a middle-aging Midwesterner's love for an intermittently erotic bobbysoxer, grossed Novelist Sinclair Lewis well over a quarter-million dollars before publication. Once on the stands, the novel soared into second place on the best-seller list, with 675,000 sales in ten weeks...
...bring French women up to date on what has happened to the rest of the world in the past five years, Mme. Lazareff, in a frantic fortnight in Manhattan, gathered up data on postwar kitchens, Sinclair Lewis' Cass Timberlane (to run serially), news of Sinatra, Van Johnson and other wartime discoveries...