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...little town of Nanty Glo* in west Pennsylvania's Blacklick Valley lay deserted in the rain. On Roberts Street, where most of the town's stores are, trade was at a standstill. A few women in cloth coats, hunched under umbrellas, trudged through the cold downpour that denied the spring time promise of the imperceptibly greening hills. The rain came down ceaselessly, sluicing and gurgling through the empty back yards, past privies and chicken coops, under the broken wooden sidewalks, running at last into the muddy waters of Blacklick Creek, the narrow stream that bisects the town...
...time, tank-town vaudeville couple from Peoria, who 15 years ago were considered washed up-Jim and Marion Jordan. By radio alias they are Fibber McGee and Molly of 79 Wistful Vista. This week they celebrate Fibber & Co.'s fifth season on the air for Johnson's Glo-Coat floor wax.* Last week they made their debut in the dramatic bigtime, playing Mama Loves Papa (a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland movie story) on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre. They let the characterization pass, wrung the gags unmercifully, but no one minded. A year ago Fibber & Co. were...
...Fibber & Co. ribbing the customers in the old-fashioned way is still Don Quinn. He and the Jordans still split the radio salary three ways, a weekly net of something like $4,000. As top-line radio salaries go, this is small potatoes. Tip-off to the Johnson Glo-Coat bargain rate with Fibber & Co. is that S. C. Johnson & Son own the names Fibber McGee and Molly...
Flour Face Mello-Glo Powder...
...sumptuous Washington offices. Fruit Industries, Ltd., potent California grape-growers cooperative which has borrowed more than $2,500,000 from the Federal Farm Board, pondered the Ukiah decision last week and took warning. Fruit Industries, said Managing Director Donald D. Conn, will no longer sell or "service" Vine-Glo grape concentrate. Instead the company's other concentrates?Virginia Dare, Wine-Haven, Guasti?will be sold unserviced "for soft drinks as usual. "If anyone still wants to let Virginia Dare, Wine-Haven or Guasti sit 60 days and ferment like Vine-Glo into wine, Fruit Industries will not and does...