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Grumpy, Eh? In Chicago, Shirley Hudson sued for divorce, claimed her eight-day, gag-loving husband had 1) tied her ankles together, 2) hoisted her to the ceiling, 3) accused her of lacking a sense of humor...
...perhaps more, Americans think of it as an overripe berry patch full of arrogant and precious snobs. For every man who admires Harvard for producing an Emerson, a Holmes, a Henry Adams, a Henry James, a Franklin Roosevelt, there is at least another who agrees with the old gag: "You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much...
Morgan writes his own scripts (aided by one gag writer) and speaks most of the lines on his show. The ideas, he says, come from reading "about eight magazines. I begin with the New Masses, work up through the Nation to FORTUNE." But he gets his biggest laughs by tossing pitchforks at radio's holy heifers. Last week, he suddenly stopped his broadcast, announced soberly: "Friends, in the public interest, I figure this is the time when you people at home are getting restless. Now during the following two or three minutes you can get up, walk around, twist...
...byline, quietly dropped several months ago, there would be two new ones: Ted Ferro and Jack Morley, Connecticut neighbors of Johnson. Ferro, at 41 an old hand at collaboration, had ground out radio serial Lorenzo Jones with his wife for nine years. Morley, a 38-year-old gag cartoonist, once did editorial cartoons for Hearst's New York Journal-American...
...other reasons, some heads already rolled in the sawdust. Top men on Radio Row had decided that the public was fed up with straight gag shows, wanted its humor coated with a story. So off the air went Danny Kaye ("too arty"), and off went Cass Daley (whose Hooper rating had skidded). Abbott & Costello hoped to save themselves with a new routine...