Word: heatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listening to the radio: ". . . Of all the things I enjoy not doing, not listening to the radio is my favorite. . . . Some programs are more fun not to listen to than others. For your non-listening pleasure I recommend Stella Dallas, Portia Faces Life and my old friend, Gabriel Heatter...
...networks will hurry their top-ranking regulars (some now at foreign posts) to the San Francisco mikes: NBC's H. V. Kaltenborn, Robert St. John; CBS's Bob Trout, Major George Fielding Eliot, William Shirer, Eric Sevareid; Mutual's Fulton Lewis Jr., Gabriel Heatter, Upton Close; Blue's "Principal Interpreter" Ray mond Gram Swing, Walter Winchell, Vincent Sheean, Drew Pearson...
...lost on the screen, but enough is left to carry the story. The fable itself, as scripted by Lewis Meltzer and Oscar Saul, is given new gentleness, meaning, sadness-the journalists are tougher, the scientists more cruel and smug. The use of Art Baker to play bleating Gabriel Heatter is a master stroke. But Alexander Hall's direction, less nimble than in Here Comes Mr. Jordan, fails to make these ingredients do more than crawl about. Almost never do they get up on their good points and dance...
Gene Sarazen, Golden Age golf champion, sold his 200-acre Connecticut farm to radio's Gabriel Heatter for some $85,-ooo, said he was through with "serious" golf for good, had got rid of the farm to concentrate on selling precision tools. Now 41, he observed: "Pretty soon it won't be a question of whether I can play four rounds in a championship but whether I can walk them." Henry Krakow, who as "King Levinsky" was a notable clown among the heavyweights (and lasted 141 seconds with Joe Louis), was picked up in Detroit for Chicago detectives...
...public was also studying radio. War has sensitized many a normally numb ear to the profound difference between commentators like Mutual's Raymond Gram Swing, whose concern has been wholly with the news, and one like Mutual's $130,000-a-year Gabriel Heatter, whose soughing sanctimony and elephantine fight talk sound most appropriate when he urges the oily virtues of "my good friend, Kreml Shampoo...