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Last week Comic Allen, who retired from radio in 1949 because of failing health (hypertension) and a falling Hooper, was back on television. It was his third attempt to find a niche in a medium which he sneeringly calls "a triumph of equipment over people," a form of entertainment that has doomed the next generation to "eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all." Allen had agreed to put his sagging face, rasping voice and acid wit to work as master of ceremonies of NBC's Judge for Yourself (Tues. 10 p.m.). "I figure this show will...
...Elmer A. Carter, 63, for eight years a member of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination, for the borough presidency of Manhattan, the city's most important county. Quickly, Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri's faction of New York's badly split Democrats selected Colonel Chauncey Hooper, 59, an assistant deputy comptroller of the city and a staff officer in the New York National Guard, for the same office. In a supporting speech, the mayor told Harlem voters that he hoped they would vote for their "own stock," i.e., Candidate Hooper, and deplored the fact that some...
...confirmed baseball fan at four. Though he made a living as a circus aerialist in his teens, Joe spent each summer playing semi-pro and minor-league baseball. In 1920 his friend Ed Barrow, manager of the Boston Red Sox, let Joe pinch-hit for Outfielder Harry Hooper in an exhibition game. In what may have been the happiest moment of his life, Joe hit a double...
...demand curve dropped 48 percent. Every three minutes, there was a share rise; after the decision, a veritable flood. On this data, Toledo engineers have fashioned a rating of Program Popularity through Pumpage and Pressure (Toledo newspapers call it a P-rating) that is as accurate as any Hooper...
...Potter to write pun-laden ads about an imaginary locality called Schweppshire, with such landmarks as Schwepsom Downs, Schwepping Forest and Schwepstow Castle (noted because "Queen Elizabeth Schwept here"), and peopled by such notables as the poet Schwinburne and the author of the "Schweppshire Lad." With such high jinks Hooper tripled sales, and profits last year Schwept to a new high...