Word: drouin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telephone number somewhere in the U. S. A call is put in for the unnamed subscriber. The band plays on, but when the phone is answered, Announcer Ben Grauer shouts "Stop, stop, Horace!" When Horace stopped the first week, Grauer called into the telephone of Frank J. Drouin, a wood carver of Andover, Mass.: "Sonny, get your father to the telephone. We have good news." When Mr. Drouin came on, Grauer told him: "This is the Horace Heidt program. I am happy to tell you that the sponsors, the makers of Turns, are making you a present...
...winner faints, cusses or thanks Providence the audience hears none of it, because NBC dares not take the responsibility for airing what goes on at rainbow's end. In Woodcarver Drouin's case, Ben Grauer reported that he had said: "I ought to buy that boy some lollipops." Next week the winner was a preacher, the Rev. W. H. Lash of Salisbury, N. C. At the parsonage, a female voice answered, showed no excitement over the message; replied that the Reverend was not at home. The Reverend won $1,000 just the same. If no one had answered...