Word: lightnin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Play by Play (produced by John Golden and the Second Service Command). Last fall Producer John Golden (Lightnin', Claudia) announced a one-act play contest for soldiers. Last June he offered the top five of 114 entries to a special audience that included Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, a ton of Army & Navy brass hats. The audience's enthusiasm aroused the public's envy, and last week Producer Golden offered The Army Play by Play on Broadway for a short...
Chicago's busiest muckraker is the Rev. Elmer Williams (Methodist), 67, husky, hot-tempered publisher of Lightnin' (average circ. 2,500), a lively, often accurate little sheet which for years has lambasted the Chicago Tribune, gangsters, labor racketeers, politicians. But not until last week was Crusader Williams sued for libel. A State's Attorney's investigator and two furriers sued because Lightnin' called them fur racketeers. Acquitted in 20 minutes flat, Gadfly Williams told the Court: "I am not a reformer, I am an informer...