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Every Wednesday night, Bill Cullen plays a parlor game in Manhattan. Then he flies to Los Angeles to play a parlor game there on Thursday nights. Then he flies back to New York to spend four hours chatting on NBC-Radio. For these jmd similar radio-TV chores, Master of Ceremonies Cullen earns about $150,000 a year. He says wonderingly: "I guess I'm the luckiest guy in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Good-Luck Kick | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...Sugar & Caustic. Fifteen years in the industry have honed Bill Cullen to the supersharpness required of a good M.C. His patter is sometimes irrelevant, but it is always fast; his smile gleams as brightly as the lens of his eyeglasses; and, whatever else may happen, he is never speechless. In making his way up to a top network job, 34-year-old Bill Cullen has closely analyzed his profession and decided that there are three kinds of masters of ceremonies: "There's the Drooler, who sugars out 'God bless you and that sort of stuff; there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Good-Luck Kick | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

Though he aims at being the man in the middle, Cullen thinks he has not quite hit it yet: "A few years ago, I was pretty disagreeable. To avoid the drooling, I'd bite 'em. I did it too much. Groucho Marx can get away with it but me. I couldn't. I'm not that good." But if he has to choose, Cullen would rather be snide than syrupy. He has had to lick another tendency-overenthusiasm: "You know. Bert Parks and John Reed King started this routine of building up a climax and shouting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Good-Luck Kick | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...freshman victory was Coach Corey Whyn's seventh straight after a loss to Exeter in the season's opener. Crimson defeats came in the first singles, where Steve Gottlieb lost to Bill Cullen, 6-0, 6-4, and in the fourth, where Dough Gardner was edged in three sets. The Yardling singles victors were lien Heckscher, Cal Place, Barry Bochm, and Charlie Edwards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Net Season Ends As Varsity, Yard Teams Top Ephs | 5/25/1954 | See Source »

...high as 750 million bbls.). Hunt, a lone wolf who hardly knows the new Athenians, uses his oil wealth to spread his far-right views through such media as radio & TV's Facts Forum. He lives in a Texas version of Mount Vernon, i.e., bigger. ¶ Hugh Roy Cullen, 72, of Houston, is another far-right winger, but no friend of H. L. Hunt. He is Senator McCarthy's patron saint in Texas, has contributed to McCarthy's campaigns and right-wing Republican causes. Cullen has also contributed much to Houston, has put aside an estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The New Athenians | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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