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...drawing board an average of six hours a day ("if you count the time I spend dreading the whole idea"), and usually has the radio on while he works. His favorite programs: Dragnet ("because it's played with more restraint than most whodunits") and Mary Margaret McBride ("because she's usually interviewing someone I know...
...Consequences." Amid such signs that the head man's words were not going over, the assistant coaches began to exhort the team, too. Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston cut short a press conference to catch a plane for New York, where, on a television program and on Mary Margaret McBride's radio show, he got in a few words for strong controls. Fred Vinson, stepping down from his traditionally aloof position of Chief Justice, warned that any relaxation of preparedness would have "dire consequences." Secretary of Defense George Marshall, Presidential Assistant W. Averell Harriman and others warned against letdowns...
Katharine E. McBride, president of Bryn Mawr College LL.D...
Mary Margaret McBride (weekdays, 2 p.m., ABC), after nearly ten years of local broadcasts, again extends her chirrupy gossip and able interviewing (of authors, politicians and entertainers) to housewives from coast to coast. The new program keeps the same old marshmallow and caramel formula: Mary Margaret getting the celebrities to talk, Mary Margaret talking about herself, Mary Margaret cooing ecstatically over such phenomena as Mother Love, Babies, Paths to Success. But, because the show is sponsored cooperatively, listeners will be deprived of her personal plugging of her homemade commercials. Instead, while Mary Margaret remains strangely silent, local announcers take over...
Dummies & the Mob. Ostensibly, Continental was bought by Arthur ("Mickey") McBride for his son Edward, now a law student in Miami University. But son Edward proved to know nothing about the business. Mickey McBride is the multimillionaire who owns the Cleveland Browns football team. But, said the committee, Continental. is not controlled by Mickey McBride, either. It is controlled by "the gangsters who constitute the Capone syndicate...