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Paul Winchell,* mouthpiece-godfather of a goggle-eyed dummy named Jerry Mahoney, is out to prove that there is more to his talents than dandling a doll on his knee. Television's top ventriloquist, Winchell is beginning his sixth TV season by filling his half-hour show (Sun. 7 p.m. E.S.T., NBC) to the brim with Paul Winchell, master of ceremonies, man of many voices, dramatic actor, singer, dancer and soap salesman (Cheer and Camay). By such breathless activity, Winchell, a muscular, 29-year-old New Yorker, hopes to escape an occupational hazard of ventriloquism: becoming incidental...
...comedy act. Edgar Bergen, never as well known as his Charlie McCarthy, once lamented: "I didn't intend to end up the stooge in the combination, but it pays so well I can't quit now." Winchell, who does not enjoy being addressed as "Paul Mahoney," tries to dominate his dummy by demanding top billing, keeping some of the laughs for himself, and crowding Jerry's act by introducing new characters. A Brooklyn bumpkin named Knucklehead Smiff is now getting a big buildup. But Jerry, a redhaired, eye-rolling twelve-year-old, remains a scene stealer whose...
...present Jerry Mahoney is a reincarnation of a dummy carved by Winchell in a high school commercial art class. Like many another ventriloquist, Winchell got his start by answering an advertisement ("Amaze your friends, throw your voice into a trunk") which offered "The Secrets of Ventriloquism" (25?). After discovering that ventriloquists do not actually throw their voices but create the illusion that they do, Winchell proceeded to amaze his friends. At 14, he also impressed radio's Major Bowes, who gave him $100 first-prize money on his Amateur Hour and a $75-a-week contract to perform...
...Into the presidency of Jerry O'Mahoney, Inc. (diners) went Swedish-born Carl Gunnard Strandlund, 53, whose badly run Lustron Corp. lost $37.5 million in RFC money trying to build prefabricated steel houses on an assembly line...
...defense tried hard to make Joe's belief in Maria's power seem reasonable: "We can't see God but we believe in Him." When Prosecutor William P. Mahoney Jr. called all this "compounding nonsense out of nonsense" and asked that Joe be sent to the gas chamber, Mexicans in the audience shivered. "Wait," whispered one, "until he feels a curse!" In the end, the jury rejected both the defense's plea of temporary insanity and self-defense, and the prosecution's demand for the death penalty, found Joe guilty of second-degree murder...