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Listeners' complaints about radio's rash of commercial spots are no longer news, but last week the squirm turned and the howl came from a longtime sponsor. Writing "as an advertiser who has been spending over $1,000,000 annually in radio" to plug his pain-relief tablets, Dol-cin Corp.'s Board Chairman Victor van der Linde reported to MBS that he had cut his appropriation for radio spots to a piddling $100,000. Reason: the "sheer multiplicity" of plugs, including many for competing products within a few minutes of each other, proves that stations...
...Night to Howl. In Newark, Truck Driver Mrs. Betty Jean Johnson, a 200-pounder, was sentenced to two days in jail for brawling after she brought an alley cat into the El Morocco Bar, shared her drink with it, tussled with other customers who objected when the cat nipped their drinks, justified her behavior by explaining that it was National Cat Week...
...Armstrong, Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday. By 1952, Caterina had married a German juggler named Eric van Aro, now lives in West Germany as a popular recording artist and movie actress. Her singing style has settled into a kind of modified Moorish that can develop into a frightening, savage howl or sink into a sweet whisper. Last week she occasionally accompanied herself expertly on a guitar, playing some poignant harmonies that freshened the overfamiliar Latin tunes...
...like to see the boys tone down on drinking themselves," Dean Durgin said, "and I'd like to see them handle the students who howl like wolves in the quadrangle...
...beasts. As a thoughtful cat tells a shepherd dog in a message from the realm of the dead: "Beware of death: tell them [those-who-walk-on-two-paws] that the Styx will roll along their white skulls in the infernal regions while the animals on the shores howl with...