Word: hub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cowan, a 6-ft.-3 in., 214-lb. Ph.D. (in history) from the University of Chicago. He hit radio's big time in 1940 by producing Quiz Kids, which still writes him an annual check in six figures. After a wartime stint as boss of OWI's hub office in New York, Cowan went back to show-packaging-producing and selling programs complete from stars to sound cues. Senator was his second postwar production, second sale. (The first: a transcribed series, Murder at Midnight.) To shape it, Cowan laid out $5,000. Chief budget items: 1) a guidebook...
...neighborhood Burlesque, romped into town this week with a routine that sent a front row of bald heads rolling into the aisle and put a fold in the whalebone corset of someone's spinster aunt. Not since Stinky and Shorty pervaded the atmosphere of the Old Howard has this Hub sniffed anything resembling Lahr's patter, and not since Margie Hart twisted her ankle on a faulty runway have Beacon Hill Burghers seen-even on the sly-a morsel like Irene Allarie, who bumps her svelte way through a colorful unveiling that is guaranteed to wilt even the stiffest...
Margaret Dumont has returned to Boston, only to find herself roundly insulted by Mr. Groucho Marx, who is currently flaunting his right of primogeniture as Mrs. Marx's eldest son. Rolling in the aisles of the Laffmovie, shuddering as Hub men laughed in the wrong places and gasped at the low cut dresses of pre-Will Hays days, our hearts went out to Mother Marx, who, patiently and understandingly reared and molded four heterogeneous scions into a quartet of the laugh-makingest zanies ever to be rolled onto the American scene. The scene is "Duck Soup...
...Dubs Hub Common...
...Chestnut. The hub of this hubbub has a soft speaking voice, crew-cut brown hair, a shy smile and stands 5 ft. 10 in a Brooks Brothers suit. He traces his comic ancestry to Frank Fay (for sharpness and restraint) and Bing Crosby (for relaxation and affability). But his thoughtful, economical comedy style is probably more aptly compared with Chaplin...