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Among politicians the choice was popular; the top radio trade journals (Broadcasting, Radio Daily) praised the appointment. Kentuckian Porter, a tall (6 ft. 4 In.), convivial ex-newsman (Lexington Herald) is an able lawyer and a seasoned bureaucrat (AAA, OPA, WFA, OES). Friend of Henry Wallace, Leon Henderson and General "Ike" Eisenhower, he has been an ardent New Dealer since 1933. Having learned the ins & outs of radio during five years (1937-42) as Washington lawyer-lobbyist for CBS, he could probably earn far more outside of Government than the FCChairman's $10,000 salary...
...minute chat with Thomas Rhea, a Democratic leader in Kentucky. Quizzed by the cold-eyed White House pressroom gang, Democrat Rhea gave the reporters to understand that the President had said he did not want to run for reelection. Then the Kentuckian gulped and hedged: the President had just used language which gave that impression...
Died. Irvin S. (Shewsbury) Cobb, 67, famed humorist; of dropsy; in Manhattan. Kentuckian Cobb, Paducah's favorite son, was culled from daily journalism by the Saturday Evening Post's late George Horace Lorimer, capped his career with ten years (1922-32) as a Hearst Cosmopolitan dependable. He wrote his biographical Exit Laughing in 1941, after facing Hollywood cameras in several cinecures. After his death appeared a long valedictory Cobb had written a few months before. Cobb admirers thought it had elements of a classic. Excerpts : "When convenience suits, I ask that the plain canister-nothing fancy there, please...
...husky Kentuckian said to me yesterday: "I'm getting concerned about the future of this country. And I'm worrying because I'm not doing anything about it. I've been telling myself to pick up rubber around the house or to gather up the scrap metal I know is around my place, but I don't do it. And the folks around me aren't doing much either. But damn it, a man doesn't know which way to turn...
...first program, Salon Swing, Miss Crane put an obscure pianist, a vocal quintet, a small hot band-Negroes all. The pianist, light-fingered Kentuckian Herman Chittison, won fame in Europe during the past decade, leading bands and swinging Chopin and Schubert at the. keyboard. It took Louise Crane seven months to track him down in Manhattan. The five vocalists chose an appalling name for their collective debut: the Sophistichords. But they deftly turned English and European songs inside out, kidded the pants off the clown's teary air from Pagliacci. The band of the evening, John Kirby...