Word: funnyman
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...opened until autumn. Next season, Sponsor General Foods confessed, Benny will plug some other General Foods product, not the Jell-O with which he shares his present fame. Reason: JellO, being 60% sugar, may not be made nor sold in sufficient quantities to warrant the expensive exertions of Funnyman Benny, whose new two-year contract calls for a salary of $22,000 a week for 35 weeks-highest pay in radio. General Foods last week meditated giving Jell-O to Kate Smith, shunting Grape-Nuts Products to Benny. Benny was elaborately unconcerned. In an unprecedented deal last year he persuaded...
...County Derry Irishman named William Connor, who writes for the London Daily Mirror under the pseudonym "Cassandra," sharpened his Celtic fangs last fortnight, grabbed a BBC mike, and proceeded to chew up Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, who now broadcasts out of Berlin for Goebbels & Co. (TIME, July 7, 14). Strange stuff for staid old BBC were his scarifying comments...
...U.S.S.R., in a press conference he referred to the "shocking fact" that Albania had declared war on the Soviet Union. This step, said he, was taken under the direction of "Italy's Al Capone, known as Mussolini." As for the German claims of mighty victories, said Funnyman Lozovsky, "they remind me of the story of the hunter who shouted: 'I have caught a bear...
Last week the Nazis barred CBS from making any broadcasts from Germany. The Nazis were sore about comments made by wry Elmer Davis in Manhattan as follow-up to a CBS radio interview in Berlin with Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse week before. Said Commentator Davis of Author Wodehouse, released from an internment camp and put at Berlin's swank Hotel Adlon so he could broadcast for the Nazis...
...Berlin, Funnyman Wodehouse last week began to function as trained seal for the Nazis. In a deep chuckling tone, he described his internment as "an agreeable experience," recounted for short-wave listeners the details of his capture by the Germans. Typical whimsy: "The scene was not one of vulgar brawling. All that happened as far as I was concerned was I was strolling along with my wife one morning when she lowered her voice and said: 'Don't look now but here comes the German Army.' And there they were, a fine body of men, rather prettily...