Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for Fanny Brice, as Baby Snooks, no woman comic has ever seriously challenged radio's top funnymen. Most radio comediennes (Mary Livingstone, Portland Hoffa, Jane Ace, Gracie Allen) stick to mixed-doubles family comedy...
Born. To James Mason, 39, romantic villain of British films (The Seventh Veil, Odd Man Out), and Pamela Kellino Mason, 32, novel-writing cinemactress: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Portland (after Portland Hoffa, wife of Radio Comic Fred Allen). Weight...
Reluctantly Amiable. Only in the fastnesses of his pleasant, unpretentious Manhattan apartment, where he lives with his wife Portland (the Portland Hoffa of his radio show), does Allen lower his always-loaded guns. Even then, he does not often relax. Five days a week, 14 hours a day, he squints through nine newspapers and bends over his typewriter like a jeweler, chipping and polishing at the hard little brilliants for his program. Most nights he sleeps only six hours (with ear plugs...
Meanwhile Prosecutor Gerald K. O'Brien was unable to discover one instance of threat or intimidation in the teamsters' relations with the merchants. Said Hoffa: "We contributed something around $3,000 ... [to O'Brien's campaign fund]. We don't expect any favors. We ask simply that the law be interpreted as it is written...
...Cried Hoffa: "The strike is on." At week's end, teamsters' pickets ringed the loading docks at the wholesale houses. But Hoffa's organizers now faced the sweaty business of riding after individual, dodging dogies. Republican Mayor Edward J. Jeffries ignored the prosecutor and asked that a charge of extortion be filed against the teamsters on behalf of a butcher named Bonkovitch. Detroit's editors were acting as though they had a burr in their pants. So was many a citizen. Labor baiting was rampant everywhere...