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Word: gabster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Hollywood Gabster Jimmie Fidler tried to take to the CBS air with a bit of advice for a pair of cinemastars. He wanted to tell Laraine Day she had made a mistake in vacating her perdurable role as the nurse in the Dr. Kildare series, and to adjure George Brent not to go around explaining why he wouldn't marry bouncy Ann Sheridan. Promptly CBS censors decided the items were on the dubious side, suggested he toss them out of his script. Thereupon Fidler asked his sponsor, the Tayton Co. (cosmetics), to cancel his contract so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Censored Bellwether | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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