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...candidate says he has "no recollection" of having said either "hymie" or "hymietown." When told CBS's Stahl is Jewish, Jackson reportedly says. "She doesn't look like she's Jewish. She doesn't sound like she's Jewish." Jackson also reportedly asks Bradlee. "Do you know that Freeman Gosden was Jewish?" referring to one of the creators of the largely racist mid-century radio show, Amos and Andy...
DIED. Freeman Gosden, 83, the Virginia-born white who played the straight and solid Amos to the late Charles Correll's gullible Andy in the Negro-dialect comedy radio show that was a national craze for most of its 31 -year run; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Gosden also did the voices of the bamboozling George "Kingfish" Stevens and the shuffling Lightnin' until the show succumbed to poor ratings...
...were Frank Sinatra, escorting longtime Companion Barbara Marx; U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Leonard Firestone and his wife Barbara; Standard Oil of Indiana Chairman John Swearingen and his wife Bonnie; Los Angeles Auto Dealer Holmes Tuttle, a star G.O.P. fund raiser, and his wife Virginia; and onetime Radio Star Freeman Gosden (Amos of Amos 'n' Andy) and his wife Jane. Comedian Bob Hope arrived at the wheel of a station wagon with Wife Dolores. Notably absent: Spiro T. Agnew, who was ensconced near by as a house guest of Sinatra...
There is also talk of helping break the reading barrier for good, and perhaps reversing a trend that has seen the reading skills of American schoolchildren decline while reading consultants, advisers, textbooks and remedial reading courses proliferate. "A great thing about Me-Books," Me-Book Publisher Freeman Gosden Jr. told a lecture audience at the American Booksellers Association meetings this year, "is that one book can't be passed from child to child...
Died. Charles Correll, 82, tuba-throated half of radio's Amos 'n' Andy for more than three decades; of a heart attack; in Chicago. After several years on the Southern tent-show circuit, Correll and another white vaudevillian, Freeman Gosden, teamed up on radio in 1928 to create the roles of Amos (a kindly taxi driver played by Gosden) and Andy (a scheming misadventurer portrayed by Correll). With its fractured black-dialect humor, the show became radio's first major craze. At the height of the program's popularity in the '30s, hotels canceled...