Word: fibber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years knuckle-headed, know-it-all Fibber McGee has been larding his fun program with monthly propaganda plugs-about waste fats, car pools, etc. The funniest part is that the customers like it. Last week Fibber & Molly (Jim & Marion Jordan) pitched their 30th Government plug, a Wistful Vista bond rally; they also edged ahead of Bob Hope again in their neck-&-neck race for program popularity...
Formula for Fibber. Much credit for the success of their propagandizing belongs to Don Quinn, the man who writes the show (NBC, Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m., E.W.T.). He was the first radio scripter to see profit in building an entire comedy show around one of the subjects which OWI allots to radio each month. (Most programs either confine themselves to a sly line or two, or else beat the listeners' ears back with earnest messages...
...Quinn's formula: put into Fibber's loud mouth all the bromidic complaints of disgruntled civilians-and then point out the vulgar errors of Fibber's thinking. When OWI wanted to hit unnecessary travel, Quinn had Fibber attempt a 250-mile train trip, fail to get either a reservation or any sympathy ("If you insist on being bullheaded, why don't you take a cattle car!"), and finally admit that "the railroads have bitten off about as much as they can choo-choo...
Born. To Kathryn Jordan Goodman, 24, daughter of radio's top corn-& -cackle combination, Fibber McGee and Molly; and Lieut, (j.g.) Adrian Goodman. 24. U.S. Navy doctor; their first child, a daughter, Fibber and Molly's first grandchild; in Hollywood. Name: Diane Marie. Weight...
...George Gallup in the popular imagination: he's not at all the stuffed-shirt as represented in "Heavenly Days," and he doesn't go around looking for the "Average American"--he leaves that to Crockett Johnson's Mr. O'Mally, who is considerably more mature in his humor than Fibber McGee of Wistful Vista...