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...learned enough piano chords by ear to get some local esteem as a musician. Because he found he could play the piano standing on his head, he became Don Carney, the Trick Pianist of vaudeville. He got into radio 14 years ago. One day, on a half-hour's notice, he was assigned to do a children's program. Up at the microphone he just thought of mother, and from then on everything was Jake...
Last Sunday the half-hour Round Table discussion was opened and closed with an apology by the University's vice president Frederic Campbell Woodward (a Hoover aide with the U. S. Food Administration in 1917): "That statement should never have been made. We have ample assurance that it is absolutely untrue. We not only wish to state our regret but our full confidence that Mr. Hoover's public life stands out for high standards of probity, political honesty and abhorrence of political corruption...
...ambitious radio venture. In the broadcasts, products like Cop-R-Loy pipe and Ductillite tin plate get a mention, but the main idea is to make the U. S.' public pals with Wheeling Steel. A far more ingratiating ambassador for Little Steel than Tom Girdler, the Wheeling Steel half-hour is also an economical adventure in employe participation. The employes boom the company's products and hence help along their own prosperity But judged by other half-hour musical shows, many of which cost as much as $15,000 a week, Wheeling Steel gets...
...Ranh Bay off the coast of Indo-China, French warships were maneuvering one bright morning last week. The submarines Phénix and L'Espoir submerged to make a sham attack on the flagship of the Far Eastern Fleet, the cruiser Lamotte-Picquet. After a half-hour L'Espoir knifed to the surface, but no one saw the Phénix, and probably no one ever will. For a day and a half planes and warships crisscrossed the sea, searching in vain for the crippled vessel. And then the Ministry of the Navy belatedly informed the families...
Name Three, a quiz show based on bank night, is a Monday night MBS half-hour sponsored by Dunhill Cigarettes. Candidates picked from the studio audience, asked to name, for example, three vegetables beginning with S, win $2 for each right answer. If a mike-scared quizee can think of spinach, cannot remember squash or salsify, he wins only $2, and the remaining $4 goes into a jackpot. Near the program's end the candidates get a chance to share the jackpot by writing answers to a Toughie (e.g., Name three State capitals named after Presidents). If there...