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Gone Where? It was all good-natured fun, which had been getting scarcer on Information Please since last November when American Tobacco Co. began its notorious statement that the green on Lucky Strike cigaret packages (now white) "has gone to war." Information Please's Impresario Dan Golenpaul thought this advertising teaser in poor taste, told Lucky Strike: "You're lousing up my program, and I won't stand for it." American's truculent President George Washington Hill would not stand being talked to that way. Golenpaul asked to be released from his contract...
...successful (November sales were 38% over 1941) that all the green packages were gone. Then Luckies produced a new slogan: "The Best Tunes of All Move to Carnegie Hall"-an advance plug for its new show ("all-time" popular melodies played by Mark Warnow's orchestra). Impresario Golenpaul asked a Manhattan court to make Lucky Strike cut this commercial plug while Information Please was still on Lucky Strike's time. The court seemed to be sympathetic, but denied Golenpaul's plea. Irritated listeners, the court said, would probably direct their resentment against the sponsor, not the program...
Gone Far. This controversy was a rare occurrence in U.S. radio, whose impresarios can seldom summon sufficient nerve to question the taste of a rich sponsor's advertising. It was also too tempting a publicity opportunity for Dan Golenpaul to overlook. As is the case with many...
...summer of 1938 Radio Director Dan Golenpaul asked him to appear as a guest star on NBC's Information Please program. Levant astounded radio listeners by answering glibly and accurately the most abstruse musical questions the quizzers fired at him. Soon he was engaged as a regular feature, today enjoys a reputation as U. S. music's public brain...
These questions are the main concern nowadays of dark, academically-bent Dan Golenpaul, originator of Information Please. An editorial board of Manhattan literati helps him sift them each week, picking tough ones, tossing out triteness or trouble. Current politics, controversies, affairs, etc., are generally taboo. Biblical allusions are out, too, ever since John Kieran attributed a bit of Scripture to "the Bronx version," and brought on a flood of sanctimonious protest. For a question accepted, Canada Dry pays $5, and $10 more plus the Encyclopedia Britannica if it stumps the experts. The Britannica prize was added last month. First winner...