Word: fibber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fibber's garrulous tarradiddles, the broguish comeuppances Molly metes out to him, the dated didos of his numerous stooges, are as familiar as the pattern of the living-room rug. Fibber is an incorrigible blowhard, but a game guy to boot. With nonpareil confidence, he tries his luck at anything, from barbering to running an army...
weekday radio entertainers (just behind Sunday top-liners Jack Benny and Edgar Bergen) are an old time, tank-town vaudeville couple from Peoria, who 15 years ago were considered washed up-Jim and Marion Jordan. By radio alias they are Fibber McGee and Molly of 79 Wistful Vista. This week they celebrate Fibber & Co.'s fifth season on the air for Johnson's Glo-Coat floor wax.* Last week they made their debut in the dramatic bigtime, playing Mama Loves Papa (a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland movie story) on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre. They...
...program earned the Jordans and Quinn $125 a week altogether. Out of it developed Fibber McGee...
...Fibber McGee (Johnson's Wax) told Gracie he has heard whispers about Dewey, Hull, Taft and Garner all heading for the White House. Were they just rumors? Said Gracie: "They...
...cinema box offices) is traditionally Sunday. This season another big radio night has popped up to plague cinemen: Tuesday. Of the 45 U. S. weekly radio shows credited with better than average audiences by Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting for January,† ten were Tuesday-nighters, and three of these-Fibber McGee & Molly, Bob Hope, Pot o' Gold-were among radio'seight leading programs. Other Tuesday-night mainstays: Big Town, Information Please, We, the People, Aldrich Family, Battle of the Sexes, Court of Missing Heirs, Cavalcade of America, Second Husband, Uncle Walter's Doghouse...