Word: fidlerism
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...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...
...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...
Married. James Marion ("Jimmie") Fidler, 48, radio and newspaper cinemagpie; and ex-Airline Stewardess Adeline Cox McKnight, 25; he for the third time, she for the second; in Upland, Calif...
...Jimmie Fidler, hot-water specialist among Hollywood gossips (TIME, Nov. 30), announced that his wife, Roberta, had moved to Mexico, would soon sue for divorce...