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...three years knuckle-headed, know-it-all Fibber McGee has been larding his fun program with monthly propaganda plugs-about waste fats, car pools, etc. The funniest part is that the customers like it. Last week Fibber & Molly (Jim & Marion Jordan) pitched their 30th Government plug, a Wistful Vista bond rally; they also edged ahead of Bob Hope again in their neck-&-neck race for program popularity...
...ensuing years, while other endocrines yielded up their secrets to the "hormone hunters," study of the male hormone languished. Pioneers who dared to experiment in the field drew sneers & jeers at "rejuvenations," "elixirs" and "monkey glands." But in 1926 University of Chicago Chemist Fred Koch and his assistant Lemuel McGee began dissolving, fractionating and distilling tons of bulls' testicles in an attempt to discover what it is that makes bulls bulls. They developed a method for obtaining from some 40 Ibs. of bull glands 20 milligrams of a substance which, when injected into capons, restored them to roosterhood...
Born. To Kathryn Jordan Goodman, 24, daughter of radio's top corn-& -cackle combination, Fibber McGee and Molly; and Lieut, (j.g.) Adrian Goodman. 24. U.S. Navy doctor; their first child, a daughter, Fibber and Molly's first grandchild; in Hollywood. Name: Diane Marie. Weight...
...Fibber McGee's current release is full of cliches peculiar to Fibber McGee, the small-town, middle-class would-be emulator of Will Rogers. In "Heavenly Days," McGee goes to Washington and makes a damn fool of himself by trying to make a speech from the Senate gallery in praise of the Amurrican virtues as they are vulgarly conceived. Apparently the Army authorities who have to interpret Congress' law thought that some of the things Fibber said might be considered anti-Administration propaganda, but they have now realized that it's all quite harmless, and not even funny...
...Gallup in the popular imagination: he's not at all the stuffed-shirt as represented in "Heavenly Days," and he doesn't go around looking for the "Average American"--he leaves that to Crockett Johnson's Mr. O'Mally, who is considerably more mature in his humor than Fibber McGee of Wistful Vista...