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...housekeeper, Mrs. Emmet Reed, had opened the three-bedroom stucco bungalow in jig time, adding womanly bowls of flowers. But Ike's party was strictly a stag affair. With him, besides Host Allen and Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, were Coca-Cola's Chairman Bill Robinson and Freeman Gosden, original Amos of radio's Amos 'n' Andy...
...edging out the speakeasy among U.S. pastimes, a pair of second-rate jazz singers stood before a microphone at NBC's WMAQ in Chicago, shifted into heavy Negro dialect, and gave birth to a national institution. Within two years the Amos 'n' Andy show of Freeman Gosden (Amos, Kingfish et al.) and Charles Correll (Andy) was radio's first great popular craze, so captivating that U.S. telephone calls soon fell off 50% between 7 p.m. and 7:15, and movie theaters stopped their films to pipe in the show. Last week balding Freeman Gosden...
Over the decades, despite blasts from Negro groups objecting to the social caricatures, Southerners Gosden and Correll have stuck to their basic plot line, regularly got tuba-voiced Andy (Correll) into wild misadventures, sent earnest, gravel-throated Amos (Gosden) to his aid, and flavored the episodes with the genial con-manship of The Kingfish (Gosden...
...Andy were going so strong that car thieves found easy pickings during the program, and defendants testified that at the time of the crime they naturally were at home listening to the show (and made the alibis stick under close questioning by judges who remembered the dialogue). Said Gosden: "We love what we're doing, and we plan to go on doing it for a long, long time...
This week, radio listeners who have been going steady with Amos 'n' Andy for 25 years were still worried by the bleak -but unconfirmed - rumor that Gosden & Correll will retire at the end of this season. But, in any case, Amos 'n' Andy will live on in TV: the TV version (alt. Thursdays, 8:30 p.m.), with Alvin Childress and Spencer Williams in the title roles, is now a CBS package...