Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-week try-out on NBC-Blue (Tuesdays 9:30 to 10 E.S.T.) as a possible summer substitute for one of the big shows. To prove his point that there is a bit of minstrelsy in every man, Producer Mort Lewis (If I Had The Chance) got Cartoonist Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka} and Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg as regular endmen, Actor Ezra Stone and Announcer Harry von Zell as extras, Jay C. Flippen as interlocutor. Celebrity Minstrels opened with Oh, Dem Golden Slippers, got in tune with There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
...partner in the PrestOLite business. One day, according to the story Carl told me, he made a wager with Mr. Allison on the gastronomic potentialities of their respective cooks. ... On the starting line Carl's cook said to Allison's cook, "What do we start wit, Nigger, hams?" Said Allison's cook to Fisher's cook, his eyes bulging a bit, "Look here, Galloway, did you say ham or hams?" "I said hams," said Galloway. "Nigger, you win," said Allison's cook...
...same for the Arthur Roy Allisons of St. Louis since their daughter Elizabeth got married three years ago and went to live in Puerto Rico. Early last year, Mr. Allison hit on a great idea for keeping in touch with Elizabeth and her husband. He became a radio ham, W 9 FFB, with a radiophone transmitter in the basement. In San Juan, P. R., not far from Elizabeth, lived an active radio ham, Mrs. Jennie Ramirez, K 4 FOW. She and Neighbor Elizabeth hit it off fine, and for most of last year they had gay radio gabfests almost every...
Last Nov. 24, Jennie Ramirez had exciting news for Allie. He was a grandfather. Soon Allie was QSOing ham acquaintances everywhere-Claude Hannibal, on a freighter in the Pacific; the Gunther boys in Buenos Aires; cronies from Chile to Midway Island. A boy, it was, almost nine pounds, named Roy Bernard Rubeli after his dad and granddad. The other hams nicknamed W 9 FFB, Foxy Grampa...
...month, for two months, it was tough going. The child got pneumonia, had three bladder operations, was kept alive with sulfanilamide derivatives, 19 blood transfusions. The father, forced to return to Puerto Rico, hovered over Jennie Ramirez' receiver. Foxy Grampa wirelessed what encouragement he could, while the vast ham party line listened in sympathetically. One great day last month, W 9 FFB, came on with wonderful news...