Word: fibber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dangling the juicy bait of tax savings before other NBC stars, soon made off with Jack Benny. Bing Crosby, Edgar Bergen, Phil Harris, Fibber McGee & Molly, and Red Skelton were reported planning to join the exodus to CBS. This week the tax collector cut the gossip short. He had bad news for radio stars who would like to revise contracts...
This week, radio reached the end of another fried-egg hunt. Since her introduction to Fibber McGee's cluttered household in 1944, fat, jolly, colored Beulah, the housemaid, had been impersonated by two thin, tense, white men. Now, at long last, the new Beulah show (CBS, Mon.-Fri., 7 p.m., E.S.T.) had a Beulah that was really fat, jolly and colored: Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel. Everyone agreed that she made an ideal Beulah...
...itself. Such debatable blessings as America's Town Meeting of the Air and the scripting efforts of Norman Corwin are duly acknowledged, a fair proof of the old saw that in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. Such likable veterans as Jack Benny, Fibber & Molly, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen and Fred Allen are respectfully saluted. The news commentators are cursorily lumped on the credit side and so is the fact that radio lavishes millions each year on programs of serious music for a relatively small audience...
Boosted by such guest stars as Bob Hope, Fibber McGee & Molly, Red Skelton-and by the fact that Amos had a kidney operation and dramatically made the broadcast from a hospital bed-Amos 'n' Andy reached third place in Hooperatings, the largest listenership (about 30,000,000) since the days when movies were interrupted so that audiences could hear them...
...average sets in use. That means less than 40 respondents giving the Pacific Coast pace for half-hour listening! ... On that small a sample, Mr. Hooper can get odds from any professional gambler that ... he will eventually hit a night when not one single respondent is listening to Fibber & Molly or Bob Hope...