Word: fibber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. James Jordan, 21, son of radio Comics Fibber McGee & Mollie; and Carmelie Bergstrom, 19, cinemaspirant; in Hollywood...
...very much like your husband. You both seem to take an almost equal interest in TIME and the news. You both vote gardening your favorite hobby-both say They Were Expendable is the book you most enjoyed last year-both report your favorite radio programs are Information, Please and Fibber McGee & Molly. But you play more bridge than he does, and you read a little more than he does, and your second and third choice books were Our Hearts Were Young and Gay and The Robe, while his were Berlin Diary and See Here, Private Hargrove...
...more than you lost in Wall Street. You're working longer hours than ever before, but you still find time for civic activities and civilian defense, and for your favorite hobbies- gardening, photography, golf, fishing. You have a radio, of course, and your favorite programs are Information, Please, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny. You are likely to play a musical instrument yourself, and you admit you play it pretty well (the odds are it's the piano, but it could be the violin, clarinet or saxophone, or even the tipple, zither or glockenspiel...
...Fibber McGee and Veronica Lake, anonymous Vassarettes and old Harvard grads--all of them managed to get mixed up in the stream of unsuccessful attempts to get that beer. But the most surprising thing about yesterday afternoon's many phone calls was the female preponderance...
...girl's voice: "If you use Morse Code you get "MIGEE" and that's Fibber McGee, and that mean's he's lying and is in trouble." She was absolutely convinced, too. A Radcliffe girl said the WAVES had helped. No beer. Then a mother phoned, said her daughter "Sixteen years old and looks like Veronica Lake"--had got "Am in a mess" by crossing out words, the most common method among unfortunates...