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After his release, Crump bummed around for several years and went through several jobs. Then, at 23, he got into real trouble. On the morning of March 20, 1953, three hooded gunmen ambushed two payroll clerks and a guard in a corridor of Libby, McNeill & Libby's Chicago plant and robbed them of $20,318. As they fled, one of the bandits gunned down a guard. Within 48 hours, police had rounded up Crump and four other Negroes, including two getaway car drivers. One of the accused, Hudson Tillman, fingered Crump as the murderer, and Crump confessed. He retracted...
Five seconds to air time. "Untie your shoes and loosen your girdles," says the portly announcer, drawing a laugh. Then Don McNeill steps out on the stage and shoves the announcer into the lap of a giggling matron in the front row. In the burst of laughter, the band strikes up, and everybody in the Fountain Room at Chicago's Sherman House Hotel rousingly sings: "Good morning, breakfast clubbers, Good morning...
Thus, every day of the working week, begins Don McNeill's radio Breakfast Club, the longest running series in the history of broadcasting. This summer it begins its 30th straight year...
...Corn. Mixing orchestra music, songs, plain talk, sentiment, shenanigans, commercials, and poems that would have embarrassed Edgar Guest. Breakfast Club is the salt of the air. The visiting audience is full of people who listen to McNeill every day without fail, and they feel no restraint about participating. One woman walked up to him during a show recently and hefted a likker pot toward him, drawling: "Ah brought you a small jug of corn from Alabama." "We got our own corn on this show," said...
...World of James McNeill Whistler, by Horace Gregory. This first-rate biography sacrifices color for perspective, but even a toned-down Whistler is no still life...