Word: claghorns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kenny Delmar, who appears on radio as Senator Claghorn, is making his stage debut in "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" as Hominy Smith, a dishonest, scripture-quoting State Senator in the Lone Star State. Mr. Delmar turns out to be a good actor and his Hominy Smith is a more toned-down characterization than Claghorn, and also more amusing. Unfortunately, Mr. Delmar can not sing, and this being a musical, he is occasionally called upon to do what...
Your excellent article on Minnesota's Senator Humphrey [TIME, Jan. 17] leaves some hard questions unanswered. Assuming that he is "too cocky, too slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise," is he not just another Senator Claghorn with a "new look"? Is modern statecraft so simple an art that it can be mastered by one who learns his economics from South Dakota dust storms, and campaigns by visiting all the county fairs and eating hot dogs until they "come out of his ears...
...Allen's Alley, satchel-eyed Fred Allen has dispossessed two tenants: Senator Claghorn and Ajax Cassidy. Cassidy is gone for good, but the Senator will tub-thump occasionally during the election campaign. The vacancies have been let to a mysterious Russian, Sergei Strogonoff, and to a new rhyming character reminiscent of an old Alley resident, Falstaff Openshaw. Mrs. Nussbaum and Titus Moody have renewed their leases...
Born. To Kenny Delmar (real name: Kenneth Frederick Fay Howard), 36, radio's Klaxon-voiced "Senator Claghorn," and Alice Cochran Howard, 32, onetime ballet dancer: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: John Davies. Weight...
...your June 2 edition, you mention "South Carolina's Harold Cooley." Senator Claghorn won't like this, but U.S. Representative Harold Dunbar Cooley hails from North Carolina's Fourth Congressional District...