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...their own dreams, knew little or nothing of their inventor. But as friends and colleagues talked of this modest little man, as he never on earth would have talked of himself, a figure of almost Franciscan sweetness emerged. "If ever there was a saint on earth," said warmhearted Harry Hershfield (Abie the Agent), "it was George Herriman...
...three grateful comedians could not say, but they could ask the question of themselves. They were "Senator" Edward Hastings Ford, 56, Harry Hershfield, 58. and Joe Laurie Jr., 50, who have wisecracked their collective way through no years of U.S. vaudeville, formal banquets, benefits, railroad smokers, etc. Their bow to Joe Miller was also a pat on the back for their radio program, Can You Top This? (NBC, Sat., 9:30-10 p.m.; WOR, Wed., 7:30-8 p.m., E.W.T...
Thanks to the versatility of wry, doom-voiced Senator Ford, cozy, white-haired Harry Hershfield, and "Little Joe" Laurie Jr., this incredibly simple formula is a funny fiscal success. Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive-Peet foots the bills, and the three jokesters freely admit that they never anticipated making so much money out of Joe Millers. Sample...
Scotsmen Don't Kick. Religion, politics and arson (dangerous subject) are taboo for the program's joke-making, but everything else, within the bounds of reasonable taste, goes. Hershfield, who is also a columnist (New York Daily Mirror) and cartoonist (Desperate Desmond), and Donald are grade-A dialect storytellers. This talent usually arouses protests from the nationality they have outraged. But Scotsmen never protest. During 1943 the favorite type of joke sent in by contestants has been that known as "moron." Sample: "Have you any children?" "Un happily, no." "That's too bad. I wanted...
...Harry Hershfield, Manhattan cartoonist (Abie the Agent), went Charter No. 1 and chairmanship of the New York City chapter of the Grouch Club of America. Grouch Hershfield obligingly posed for news photographers, put his worst face forward...