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...readers of the Express, too. Milton Caniff's comic-strip airline operator was a likable enough chap, but how was one to understand him without a pony? Even to inveterate followers of the U.S. cinema, such terms as "leg it," "front boy," "Hood" and "gee" were hard to translate. Express editors, who have had to doctor much of the Canyon dialogue for British readers, were nonplussed by "Delta and I will go out and butter up some of the key peasants." At last they decided that "some of the key peasants" meant "some of the big locals...
...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...
Back home at the Union Station in Ottawa, newsmen, photographers and Government bigwigs, headed by External Affairs Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent, welcomed Mr. King. A little girl wedged close to him to get her first look at Canada's Prime Minister. Said she: "Gee, he's got a lot of hair in his ears...
Toothsome. In Uniontown, Pa., a Paradise Restaurant customer looked Waitress Katherine Gaydo up & down, exclaimed, "Gee, you're pretty-good enough to eat," grabbed her hand...
...expansive moment he also helps his slow-moving brother (William Gargan) to swing an important business deal; a little later he almost persuades his brother's wife (Ruth Warrick) to skip town with him. He has, it seems, just one good streak: his young nephew's fatuous, gee-whillikers devotion inspires in him a devotion equally infantile...