Word: hooper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Uncle Don (real name: Howard Rice) was going strongest, in the early '30s, about 25% of all radios in WOR's New York area were daily tuned to his wheedling, down-on-hands-&-knees half hour for the kiddies. Last week Uncle Don's Hooper rating had sagged so low that WOR decided to drop his 19-year-old daily program, leaving him, for the moment, only his Sunday morning session of reading-the-funnies. Explained a WOR official: "No one has ever felt quite the same about him since the Incident...
Johnson J. Hooper on census-taking in Alabama ("Bless your soul, honey, take a seat. Now do! Are you the gentleman that Mr. Van Buren has sent out? I wonder! Well, good Lord look down, how was Mr. Van Buren and family when you seed...
Adams lived in it for 80 years, until he died in bed in 1918. Most of those years, after his marriage in 1872, were bitter ones. One point at last made clear in this volume is that Marian Hooper Adams, his ailing wife, did not die from natural causes; she killed herself, with potassium cyanide. Says Editor Cater: "From this calamity Henry Adams was never to recover. . . . He was, in spite of his reserved self-possession, an emotional man. . . . [Thereafter] he never mentioned Marian's name, except on extremely rare occasions." Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens was asked to design...
...Falsification and oversimplification!" retorted 48-year-old Charles Ernest Hooper. "In the first place, on the Coast we don't make a report on one broadcast because our sample is too small. We wait and make a monthly report, using the statistics on four broadcasts. In the second place, we don't make the same number of calls every hour. . . . We call somewhat more at night than during the day. At night we average 165 calls a half-hour -660 a month on any show in the report...
...number representing the percentage of radio sets-in-use which are tuned to any sponsored show, based on a telephone poll of listeners, conducted while the show is in progress by the research firm of C. E. Hooper...