Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychic entrepreneur, Mr. Pressing is anxious to put his celestial pals on a radio network. He is convinced that if he can get them to talk for recordings, they'll be only too happy to come to a microphone...
...technical difficulties, to say the Irate, admitted the youthful entrepreneur of the other. "But," he added slyly. "If memory serves me right, so has the CRIMSON Network...
...down. Convinced that Gang Busters might be catching crooks but were not selling Cue, the liquid dentifrice, Benton & Bowles, acting for Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, decided not to renew their contract. Still shooting, still with their boots on, Gang Busters vacated the air waves, waited for Phillips H. Lord, their entrepreneur, to send them out on a new crusade...
...Likeliest, folksiest of last week's newcomers was MBS's Sheep and Goats Club, an all-Negro jamboree with an all-Negro studio audience (Wednesdays 8 to 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). Entrepreneur is colored Actor Richard Huey (All God's Chillun Got Wings, In Abraham's Bosom, Porgy), a Harlem big shot who runs a barbecue near Lenox Avenue called Aunt Dinah's Kitchen, and operates on the side a theatrical booking office for Negro talent. As Bossman Huey explained the setup: "Over on the right here we got the sheep. . . . They sing hymns...