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Last week in Shanghai, frightened and furious over persistent mob raids on their shops (nine in one day), some 300 rice merchants milled in front of City Hall. They shouted for protection. Mayor K. C. Wu refused it. They called for a gag on Little Happiness. Mayor Wu refused that. Someone cried: "Let's go to Heavenly Voice radio station and take care of Little Happiness ourselves!" Others echoed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bloodsucking Rice Worms | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...want the 20,000-seat amphitheater used as "a springboard for ideologies foreign to the majority." This was too much even for the arch-conservative Los Angeles Times. While Wallace backers, delighted at the publicity, signed up the 18,000-seat Gilmore Stadium, the Times editorialized: "We should not gag a bray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Only a Progressive | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...dream. Acid-tongued Fred Allen started it on Sunday night with a verbal swat at NBC's executives: "There is a little man in the company we work for. He is a vice president in charge of program ends. . . ." After the first eleven words, NBC huffily cut the gag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Golden Silence | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Skeptics wondered if it was entirely fortuitous that the well-publicized gag came along just as radio's summer dol drums were setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Golden Silence | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...Sherwin Cody's Better English Institute to buy full-page ads in the slick publications proves that there is a paying public interested in education and self-improvement. This fact will not forever be lost to advertisers. We have in recent times seen the decline of the supposedly eternal gag type of humor, and its slow replacement by the situation comedy of Morgan and Fred Allen. The quiz shows and soap operas are wearing thin in their turn. When sponsors do realize that the American's concern with his personal inadequacies is not limited to "cathartics and mouth-washes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/15/1947 | See Source »

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