Word: fidler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nuys' elaborate, teenagers' Ciro's, the Dri-Nite Club, and making more than pocket money doing it (about $45 a week). By last week, they had spread out to playing one-nighters here & there, for fraternity dances and Hollywood high-lifers such as Columnist Jimmy Fidler. But the surest sign that they were really arriving was the hushed way the fans listened when the boys sat in with jazzbos like Drummer Zutty Singleton out at the Club 47, a Ventura Boulevard bistro where the best of Hollywood's radio and movie musicians go after work...
...turned out to be James Fidler,* a squarish, stocky young fellow with pleasantly twinkling eyes, carefully combed wavy hair and a professorial pointer in his hand. After a flourish of music and an announcer's explanation of the program, Fidler appeared on the telescreen, briskly went to work on the six maps that surrounded...
Then the camera's eye fixed itself on Fidler's wand, as it pointed to the asterisks (snow), dots (rain), commas (drizzle) and other symbols on the maps. Fidler, the U.S. Weather Bureau's one-man radio and television department, was launching a show that he hopes to keep simple and uncluttered. His forecasts will ignore such weather map standbys as isobars ("too confusing...
...confused with Hollywood's Radiora-cle Jimmy Fidler...
...Happened in 1947 (Thurs. 10 p.m., ABC). President Truman, Secretary of State Marshall by transcription; Walter Winchell, Drew Pearson, Jimmie Fidler, Louella Parsons, Elmer Davis, Walter Kiernan-reviewing the year's best news stories...