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...known better than to have given credence to one of the oldest myths in American radio! This legend has been wished on children's radio entertainers since earliest days of broadcasting. The Uncle Don "incident" story [TIME, Feb. 24] is definitely apocryphal. Don himself recalls hearing the same gag told back in 1926 before he entered radio, as having happened to an Uncle "Gee Bee," a radio uncle on the now defunct New York station WGBS. Incidentally . . . Uncle Don started a new half-hour series on WOR March 1 in the new role of "Children's Disc Jockey...
...Tallahassee, paunchy, gag-loving Legislator P. Guy Crews introduced a bill to prohibit airplanes from flying over Florida-if they had flush toilets.* &3182;The American Automobile Association, perturbed by the regularity with which pedestrians were colliding with their member cars, hopefully set out to popularize tail lights for the man in the street. The lights, two-inch plastic reflectors, come in red, orange or yellow, can be worn on the wrist, on a handbag or pinned to clothing-preferably just above the rear bumper...
From the flying cowboy on the cover (see cut) to the gag cartoons in the back of the book, the Saturday Evening Post had changed a lot in 18 years, and generally for the better. There was more fact than fiction on the bill of fare, and the helpings were smaller. Of the ten articles, not one explained a tycoon's secret of success in terms of sobriety, thrift and an 18-hour day. The dowdy "Post Old Style" type was long since gone; clean-cut Bodoni dressed the pages. Up front the hors d'oeuvres included...
...ruthlessly trimmed his text, liberally boosted his prices (up to $600 for pieces by beginners and $1,500 for old hands). He pays $2,500 for a Norman Rockwell cover, laid out $60,000 for Admiral Halsey's forthcoming memoirs. He banished prettified dog portraits and elaborately styled gag covers, made the word Post stand out on the cover, and the words Saturday-Evening seem almost whispered. (The accent is the same in the radio plugs and the Post's smart promotion ads.) The success stories changed: "Today," Hibbs says, "we'd rather talk about the second...