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Word: folksiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...researchers, who do preliminary leg work which Miss McBride follows up after she reads their reports. Only written material she uses on the air are a few scribbled notes on a sheet of yellow paper. In her six years on the air, she has received over a million letters. Folksiest broadcast she ever made involved her redheaded nephew on the occasion of his first birthday. The nephew proved taciturn and Miss McBride, to convince her listeners that he was really there, kept murmuring, "Say 'Goo,' baby, say 'Goo.' " After listening to Miss McBride for almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Goo | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Likeliest, folksiest of last week's newcomers was MBS's Sheep and Goats Club, an all-Negro jamboree with an all-Negro studio audience (Wednesdays 8 to 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). Entrepreneur is colored Actor Richard Huey (All God's Chillun Got Wings, In Abraham's Bosom, Porgy), a Harlem big shot who runs a barbecue near Lenox Avenue called Aunt Dinah's Kitchen, and operates on the side a theatrical booking office for Negro talent. As Bossman Huey explained the setup: "Over on the right here we got the sheep. . . . They sing hymns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Shows | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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