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Information Please (Tues. 8:30 p.m., NBC-Blue). Critic Clifton Fadiman leads his corps of experts through radio's merry and most scholarly question-and-answer bee. The experts: Newspaper Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, Sportswriter John Kieran, Novelist Alice Duer Miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

Behind the opposing Barkley campaign is the Louisville Triumvirate-supposed to be the decisive force in any Democratic contest in Kentucky. This extraordinary political team is composed of Lawyer Shackleford Miller Jr.; Michael ("Mickey" j Brennan, 61, red-headed one-time saloonkeeper; and "Miz" Lennie Lee McLaughlin, 34, who looks like the Duchess of Windsor and lives in style at the Kentucky Hotel. A country belle from Breckenridge County, she got into politics via a typing job at Alben Barkley's headquarters when he ran for Governor in 1923. She runs the office of the Jefferson County Democratic executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: The Roosevelt Handicap | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...virtual election), leading contestants until last month were Attorney General William ("Bill") McCraw and redheaded Railroad Commissioner Ernest Othmer ("Red Colonel") Thompson. Then into the race stepped Wilbert Lee O'Daniel, of Fort Worth, a radio character well-known to Texans, for years a flour salesman, later a miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Flour Salesman | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Labor (Wed. 8 p.m. CBS) discussed by Professor Lyman Bryson's dinner guests: Capitalist Apologist George E. Sokolsky, Workers Education Bureau Head Spencer Miller, WPA Teacher Gladys Poppe, an anonymous mechanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Jul. 25, 1938 | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Hockaday's idea had been to shine the President's shoes for 10?, raise $1.40 more through 14 other shines, buy a bushel of wheat, make 60 loaves of bread, sell them for 10? each and a profit of $4.50-which he would then distribute to baker, miller and middleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hustings & History | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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