Word: fibber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour preview of the coming season, starring Fibber McGee & Molly, Burns & Allen, Christopher Lynch, James Melton and others...
...Fibber McGee & Molly (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Last year's rating champs return to 79 Wistful Vista...
Fred Waring (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Summer replacement for Fibber Mc.Gee and Molly...
...heavy (186 Ibs.) to lose a slipper without knowing it, Peary has had a Cinderella's good fortune. Since he left Fibber McGee & Molly as a straight man in 1941, his show has held its own among favorites. Last week, he entered the top 15 with a Hooper rating of 16.8. He is even better as a storyteller. He sings, growls like a giant, laughs like a villainous ogre, wails like a princess with a pea in her bed. His tag line: "By the way, you better . . . turn over the record . . . while I light a cigar...
...formed (stations in Paris and Le Havre) to entertain occupation forces, not Frenchmen. But there was nothing to keep Parisians and others from tuning into the recorded programs from America -Bob Hope, Fibber McGee, Fred Allen, etc., into Beaucoup de Mtisique, an hour-long afternoon jive session, or Midnight in Paris, a two-hour nightly dance program. Unlike dull, politicky French radio, which suspended afternoon broadcasts four days a week to cut costs, AFN had become as staple a fare as red wine. Gaston Deferre, French Under Secretary of Information, asked formally that the U.S. Army keep the network going...