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...durable and sentimental as ever. He re-enacted skits from musicals of the '20s and sang such old favorites as Ain't She Sweet? and Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me. Headlined Variety: "Cantor Sock in Debut ... Vet Showman a TV Natural." A twelve-city Hooper survey rated Cantor eleven points higher than CBS's competing Toast of the Town, long a runner-up to TV's perennial No. 1 attraction, Milton Berle...
...More in Summer." Headmaster Clark, a Phillips Exeter and Amherst ('17) man, was neither a football man nor a professional educator. He was a businessman who had once run an audience-survey company with Claude (Hooperating) Hooper. But he remembered what Harvard's Bliss Perry had once said during a summer course. "Everyone learns more in summer," said Perry, "because he concentrates on a single subject." Headmaster Clark decided that education might be like that all year 'round...
That cruel prophecy soon came true. Smart found a job with a bookseller who waxed rich on the profits he made from concoctions such as "Dr. Hooper's Female Pills." Smart became his hack, churning out for him a flow of trite but salable verse and prose. Then Smart's high-strung system collapsed. He took to interpreting literally Christ's "injunction to pray without ceasing"-and pray Smart did, whenever he was moved to do so, whether in public places or in the small hours of the morning, summoning those near him to do likewise...
Philadelphia (Hooper) 13, St. Louis...
Philadelphia (Hooper) 5, Washington...