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This week, radio reached the end of another fried-egg hunt. Since her introduction to Fibber McGee's cluttered household in 1944, fat, jolly, colored Beulah, the housemaid, had been impersonated by two thin, tense, white men. Now, at long last, the new Beulah show (CBS, Mon.-Fri., 7 p.m., E.S.T.) had a Beulah that was really fat, jolly and colored: Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel. Everyone agreed that she made an ideal Beulah...
Information, Please (Fri. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). Guests: Georgia's ex-Governor Ellis Arnall and New Hampshire's Senator Charles W. Tobey...
Information, Please (Fri. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). Guests: Harold E. Stassen, Robert Montgomery...
Jack Smith Show (Fri. 7:15 p.m., CBS). Guest: trumpet-voiced Nightclub Songstress Nellie Lutcher...
...artful aid of filters and mixers, the Rose radio voice was flat and monotonous ("I don't think Gabriel Heatter has anything to worry about"). But Broadway's Billy was out to make a dent on radio. His brief, five-nights-a-week show (Mutual, Mon.-Fri. 8:55-9 p.m.) is a rewrite of his daily newspaper column, "Pitching Horseshoes" (TIME., July 15, 1946). Once a week, he transcribes the week's batch of five records...