Word: claghorning
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...Senator Claghorn on the Fred Allen show (TIME, Dec. 31), Kenny Delmar has been something more than sensational. Last week, after eight months burlesquing Southern statesmanship, Senator Claghorn was far and away the best comic character of the 1945-46 season...
...Senator Claghorn, the unreconstructed Southerner who refuses to use a compass because it points north, can now take his constitutional in the deepest woods. General Electric has a new compass which points east and west. The needle is made of silmanal-a new alloy of silver, manganese and aluminum-which can be magnetized across its width instead of lengthwise, as standard compass needles must...
...Crosby and Dinah Shore, H. V. Kaltenborn, Bob Hope, Sports Announcer Bill Stern, the Lux Radio Theater, Guy Lombardo (for light music) and the New York Philharmonic (symphonic music). The editors thought Norman Corwin's On a Note of Triumph the outstanding broadcast of 1945, voted Kenny ("Senator Claghorn") Delmar the newest radio star...
...Claghorn: Your mouth is open, but nothin's comin' out. Don't hold it in, ah say, don't hold it in. Ah can't read your mind, your mind, that...
...Claghorn bluster, Delmar gets $300 a week. He does other radio chores, and would like to play a Greek character, since his grandfather (aide-de-camp to Lord Kitchener in World War I) was a Greek with the rhythmic name Zaccharios Felaxithees Efstradtiadis...