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...Burns and Allen radio and television series; of cancer; in the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif. Von Zell started his career in 1927 as a singer for a small California station. As a CBS announcer, he achieved notoriety when he introduced President Herbert Hoover as "Hoobert Heever." Von Zell was a commentator on early March of Time programs and his quick wit won him roles on the radio shows of Will Rogers, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor and Ed Wynn...
...show's characters do not much resemble the gray-suited, close-cropped, lantern-jawed, devout, straight-arrow white males preferred by longtime Director J. Edgar Hoover, who had iron control of the earlier series, personally approving every actor cast as an FBI agent to be sure he "looked the part." The ensemble includes a black recruited from military intelligence, played in the pilot by Charles Brown and afterward by Harold Sylvester; a smashing-looking woman psychologist who teaches pistol-marks-personship (Carol Potter); a salon-coiffed, hip-talking pretty boy (Joseph Cali); and a sarcastic, ever grinning preppie athlete...
Aging was wonderful medicine for one President who left office widely despised: Herbert Hoover. He was 59 in 1933; the Depression shantytowns all over America were called Hoovervilles. By the time he died at 90 he was a Grand Old Man. Harry Truman, for all his fierce partisanship, had done much to rehabilitate Hoover, appointing him chairman of a well-publicized commission on Government reorganization. Historians would never come to credit Hoover with effective measures against the Depression, but people had long since stopped thinking he had caused it. On into his 80s, pink-cheeked and bright-eyed, he gave...
Chief of Police Harold Breier, 70, who holds a life appointment, called the jury's report "a terrible miscarriage of justice" and warned that it would damage morale on the force. The autocratic Breier, likened by his detractors to J. Edgar Hoover was bold enough to wade into an angry downtown demonstration last August by citizens protesting Lacy's death. Spotting the chief, the crowd chanted: "Fire Breier He's a liar...
Carter had the worst economic record since Hoover, Hibbs said, adding the a survey of voters as they left the voting booths last November showed that more Reagan supporters cited inflation and the economy than any other issue as the reason for their support...