Word: fadiman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whiz Quiz. Veteran Funnyman Colonel Stoopnagle (Frederick Taylor) played the part, without obvious effort, of a know-nothing layman. Clifton Fadiman played the part, without obvious effort, of the omniscient explainer. Whenever Fadiman got too hot to handle, Colonel Stoopnagle was to order the orchestra to play. There was a good bit of music in the half hour...
Beatrice Lillie, before flying back tc Britain after a season on Broadway, told Manhattan reporters that Information, Please experts would hop to Europe this week and that she would guestpert for them in Paris about July 1. Clifton Fadiman, F.P.A. and John Kieran were surprised to learn where they were going...
forum, M.C.ed by Clifton Fadiman, which gives civilian listeners a straight-from-the-shoulder load of what the G.I. thinks. The vets kid their disabilities ("the loss of my arm is no more of a handicap to me than my mother-in-law's . . . bridgework") ; ask no favors ("all we want ... is a normal life"); laugh at their own grisly-humorous "theme song," My Legs Are Getting Shorter All the Time. The most expensive and hard-hitting of radio's rehabilitation experiments, The Road Ahead has the explosive force of a buzz-bomb; it obviously shakes even...
...embattled Fourth District of Connecticut became well-known all over the U.S. for the first time this autumn, as the whole New Deal poured money and speakers into Fairfield County to try to defeat her. Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes, Orson Welles, Clifton Fadiman and members of what Mrs. Luce called "the whole Broadway-Browder Axis" were all guest stars in the anti-Luce show. The President, himself, asked for her defeat and on election night, when the first returns seemed to augur defeat for the Congresswoman from Connecticut, Franklin Roosevelt told his Hyde Park neighbors: "I think [that] would...
...joined Novelists Dorothy Canfield and Christopher Morley, Litterateur Henry Seidel Canby, Informer Clifton Fadiman, as a life replace ment for the late Editor William Allen White...