Word: funnyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Charles Butterworth, 39, radio, stage and film funnyman; by his actress-wife, Ethel Kenyon Sutherland Butterworth; in Los Angeles...
...Funnyman headquarters on Mount Auburn Street, officers were still to be found. Gloom pervaded the Lampoon cubicle, as President William Calfee admitted that paid subscriptions totalled seven. Incorporated a few years age, the humorous publication contemplates placing a fourth mortgage on its architectural monstrosity or floating a new bond issue...
...came glowing descriptions of the triumphal march through Italy of Hearst Columnist Arthur ("Bugs") Baer with many an Italian official bowing & scraping before him. Reason: on his passport, where the ordinary person places the name of his nearest relative to be notified "in case of death or accident," Funnyman Baer had written: "President F. D. Roosevelt, White House, Washington...
Paducah, Ky. is the home town not only of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb but of ("Dear") Alben Barkley. leader of the New Deal majority in the Senate. Since Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler is hot after Mr. Barkley's seat,*Paducah will be Franklin Roosevelt's most Important political stop, on July 9. Next on his visiting list will come Oklahoma, where faithful Senator Elmer Thomas is up for reelection, next, his son Elliott in Fort Worth, Texas...
Each week, Funnyman Fred Allen presents on his Ipana, Sal Hepatica hour a Person You Didn't Expect to Meet. Last week the person was 15-year-old Joseph Becker, who described how he ran his Bronx Baby Minding Service. One of the people who thus unexpectedly met Joseph Becker was New York's License Commissioner Paul Moss, who three days later summoned the young impresario, told him it is against the law to run an employment agency without a license. "I'll start another career," said Joseph Becker...