Word: fibber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fibber McGee & Molly (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC). Hour-long show to celebrate 15 years...
...Fibber McGee & Molly. The McGees (Jim & Marian Jordan) got their start in vaudeville, but now, Jordan says: "We're not sure we even know how to make an entrance any more. Maybe we old people can't adapt successfully to video." But they will try out for TV in October...
...That other network, he noted, had had to borrow $5,000,000 to bring off its coups. And besides, radio couldn't be "satisfied indefinitely with the same material, the same performers, and the same programs." But NBC was nonetheless glad to be keeping some of its own: Fibber McGee & Molly, Phil Harris & Alice Faye, Bob Hope, "Duffy's Tavern." Trammell had also thrown together, he revealed, 30 fresh programs, which will employ such well-known stars as Cinemactors Charles Boyer, Rosalind Russell, Olivia de Havilland, Gary Grant and James Mason, as well as Comics Dean Martin, Jerry...
Once in office Fibber Elliott kept his eye on Mrs. Lee and wondered what to do next. True to her campaign promises, the new mayor cleaned out Portland's basketball and hockey-betting hangouts, had her cops round up prostitutes, close Chinese gambling dives. She even sent her police out to pick up all the slot machines, including those in such private hangouts as the Portland Press Club, which made $50,000 profit on them last year...
Between Mrs. Lee and Fibber Elliott, Portland & environs last week were as pure as the snow which had covered them in the two-week cold wave...