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Last week's Command Performance put the whole Fred Allen troupe on the air, plus Songstress Gladys Swarthout, Sportswriter John Kieran, Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll, Comic Henny Youngman. Mr. Kieran talked about sports and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The band played Deep in the Heart of Texas for some homesick Marines in the Caribbean...
...popular books from the best available sales figures; and asked a group of "informed people" to say what books "have most profoundly affected the thoughts and actions of mankind" since 1892. On the jury were Charles A. Beard, Henry Seidel Canby, John Dewey, Jerome Frank, Henry Hazlitt, John Kieran, Walter Lippmann, Somerset Maugham, Christopher Morley, William Lyon Phelps, Norman Thomas, Carl Van Doren. Their first ten choices, in order of recommendations received...
Henry Hazlitt was the only juryman to name Joyce's Ulysses. John Kieran, who appeared to miss the point, named as "books that I prize most" the works of Masefield, W. H. Hudson, Rostand...
...Information Please. He hit safely on the following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...
...American Sporting Scene-John F. Kieran...