Word: fadiman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first broadcast last week (NBC Mondays 10:30 p.m. E.W.T.) for its new sponsor: Heinz (57 varieties). First guest for the picklemaker was wry, omniscient Fred Allen. He was very funny. He answered every query he could get his rasping voice on and, substituting for Questioner Clifton Fadiman in the second half, he stumped Experts Fadiman, Kieran, Levant and Adams with quotations from Philosophers Spencer, Kant and Hegel...
...beat out a section of the William Tell overture on his teeth with a pencil. Rumpled John Kieran murmuring "where do you find the bass?" tremoloed Sleepy Hills of Tennessee on a borrowed accordion. Oscar Levant, somewhat nervous, sashayed through a couple of Gershwin preludes on the piano. Clifton Fadiman played pitchman...
...your issue of Oct. 5, you report the failure of the plan to give the name Lidice (after the martyred Czech village) to the Canadian town of Frelighsburg. You state that Premier Godbout of Quebec rapped the knuckles of the Lidice Lives Committee, and of its executive chairman, Clifton Fadiman. As a member of the Lidice Lives Committee, and as the individual who visited Godbout and had all details of the affair in hand, I feel qualified to give you the facts...
Noteworthy reactions to hulking, humorless Novelist Theodore Dreiser's damnation of the British war effort, in which he said he preferred Nazi rule in Britain to rule by "aristocratic, horse-riding snobs": Pearl Buck, Clifton Fadiman, Rex Stout, F.P.A., other members of the Writers' War Board said the Dreiser remarks were "sabotage," possibly "treasonable," observed "our enemies would pay him well for his disservice to our country's cause." And from London piped George Bernard Shaw: "To say that Dreiser's comments regarding the war are furiously inaccurate is only to say that they are like...
Meantime the "Lidice Lives" Committee of the Writers' War Board (executive chairman: Fadiman) got a little tap on the knuckles from Premier Adélard Godbout of Quebec. The town of Frelighsburg, Quebec, announced the committee, would change its name to Lidice. But Frelighsburg had not been informed, and shortly Premier Godbout announced simply: Frelighsburg will be Frelighsburg and Clifton Fadiman will be Clifton Fadiman...