Word: funnyman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only six months on the air, "Heart Throb" Barker's Merry-Go-Round had built an audience of 20 million (fully as large as that of Tommy Handley, long Britain's No. 1 radio funnyman). There were two good reasons for Heart Throb's success: 1) he had won a wide following among British servicemen as a wartime overseas entertainer; 2) Britons love their own variety of corn, and Barker gives it to them thickly buttered with Briticisms. Last week's program, like all the others, reported the high & low life of a spavined spa called...
...lavish spreads looked confusingly like the advertisements they adjoined. And like the old National Geographic, the new Holiday obviously suffered from the same travel restrictions that have kept wanderlustful vacationers homebound. To season his first issue with a dash of global flavor, Editor Beaman bought a rewrite by U.P. Funnyman Frederick C. Othman of his six-day round-the-world flight. Other pieces covered San Francisco, the New Orleans Mardi Gras, the Southwest's cliff-dweller ruins...
...Truman had nominated George Allen to RFC, and George weathered a Senate committee's scrutiny. But Funnyman George hardly added luster to the Administration. And when bumbling Jake Vardaman, whom the President had named to the Federal Reserve Board, was called before the Senate, God only knew what would happen...
...would have mightily enjoyed. Into the lofty grand ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, shirt-sleeved waiters, sweating, bumping against chairs and calling hoarse warnings, ferried outsize trays of corned beef & cabbage. Powers models swirled among the 1,031 guests, handing out clay pipes. On the stage, aging Funnyman Arthur ("Bugs") Baer cracked wise, a line of Bloomer Girls pranced through a dance routine, Bing Crosby crooned Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, and then Morton Downey sang it again...
...assigned its Washington Bureau Chief Paul Miller, who played the story solemnly: "The Globester took off for Tripoli at 12:30 a.m." Funnyman Fred Othman was only slightly funny for the U.P.: "Hand me down my white burnoose, light the incense and call the dancing girls." I.N.S. sent Inez Robb, Hearst's glib, grey go-girl, who had to admit there wasn't much to write about: "We are well on the way to establishing the alltime record of circumnavigating the globe without seeing anything...