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Time for Ernie (weekdays, 3:15 p.m., NBCTV) undertakes the strenuous job of parodying the antics of daytime TV. Wearing a pitch helmet and waving a cigar, Funnyman Ernie Kovacs does a take-off on a weather reporter, plugs a nonexistent beer called Lost (for the sake of the slogan: "Get Lost!"). More slapstick than satire, the show, unsponsored for obvious reasons, winds up sounding dangerously close to the real thing...
...written in 1939 by the Tribune's Randall Hobart as a satire on country newspapers, first appeared in the Reader's Digest, has since been widely and solemnly reprinted as genuine. Just before Columnist McClain swallowed this old chestnut, :he Milwaukee Journal and Radio & TV Funnyman Arthur Godfrey also cracked heir teeth...
...George tells it, his biggest splash in the news was the result of his doing a favor for a friend. After he quit the commissionership in 1938 and went to work recouping his fortune in private business, he continued to serve as unsalaried waterboy, choreboy and funnyman, first to Franklin Roosevelt, then to Harry Truman. In 1946 Truman asked him to serve on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. "I must have been off my rocker," George recalls. "I should have said, 'Why pick on me? Let's load this onto one of our enemies.'" Instead George Allen took...
...recording was flown back east for the dinner, but the assembled Gridironers and their 500 guests never heard it. Last week Hearstling George Dixon, professional Washington funnyman and not a member of the Gridiron Club, told what had happened. The club had decided to snub Harry Truman in May as the President had snubbed the club in December. The record was not played. Chided Columnist Dixon: "A spirit of pique and wounded self-importance...
Divorced. Milton Berle, 41, TV's No. 1 funnyman; by Joyce Mathews, 29, actress; after seven intermittent years (married in 1941, divorced in 1947, remarried last June), one adopted daughter (Victoria, 4); in the Virgin Islands...