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...beef. If a growing boy lifts a small calf, they say, and keeps lifting it day after day, why shouldn't the grown man eventually be able to lift the full grown cow? For the Borden Co.'s farm-flavored radio show, County Fair, the ancient gag looked good as new. Last week, Borden's Milo, a husky, hay-haired youngster named Allen ("Buck") La Fever, had hoisted his Jersey calf, Phoebe, on 61 consecutive days and was still going strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Modern Milo | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Jack Benny, who makes self-ridicule pay, carried a $10,000 chip on his shoulder last week. The wag from Waukegan asked NBC listeners for 50-word statements be ginning "I can't stand Jack Benny because...." The contest began as a scriptwriter's gag, but Benny took it seriously. Jack will be able to pay the prize money, without damage to his skinflint radio reputation : it will all be chargeable to program promotion, deductible for income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $10,000 Chip | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...Recalling that Paris was recently occupied by the Nazis, and assuming that Parisians are always preoccupied with sex, Playwrights Fields & Chodorov have slung together a comedy of terrors in which French patriotism prevails but French eroticism predominates. The resuit - barring one or two amusing interludes and about every 20th gag - is forced, monotonous and tinny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Because the story has no place to go, it stops whenever it has an opportunity for a song, a gag, an auto chase or a rough-&-tumble fight. Near the end of all the nonsense, Ann Dvorak puts on a ballet, purporting to be about Montezuma but looking something like a barroom engraving of Custer's Last Stand. Although the ballet seems to have been elaborately and lavishly staged, the camera gives it only a routine glance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...like their parents before them: Jiggs can't stand his wife's friends, lives in daily fear of her well-aimed rolling pin and crockery, but will never hit back. And there will never be a continued story in Jiggs. Says McManus: "I give 'em a gag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gag a Day | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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