Word: missuses
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...plain, seven-room, red brick house which he built 23 years ago, still occupies with his wife and a Negro maid named Orpah. The Murray living room is decorated with oil paintings selected by Mrs. Murray. Her husband's favorite is a seascape. Says Mr. Murray approvingly: "The missus has a very good eye for such things." A onetime star outside-left on soccer teams, Murray's only distraction from labor labors now is at tending prize fights...
...Victor gave 63-year-old Billy Murray a chance at a comeback, on Bluebird records. Last week his voice, no longer a broth but a rich Irish stew, was to be heard in The Guy at the End of the Bar. Mock-boozily he caroled: Who says that his missus just gave him the air, And left with the kids and the car? Just give him a nod and he'll climb in your hair...
...younger instructors themselves, the women's suite on the second floor was refurbished. It took very little encouragement for this to become the bridge, mah jong, and gossip center of Cambridge. In return the coeds each week give some professor a chance to lecture uninterruptedly not only his own missus but his colleagues' wives as well...
Although Bartlett is the glamor boy of the Missus shows, he had nothing to do with their confection. They were thought up in 1934 by Thomas Kivlan, then star salesman for WBBM, now an advertising executive. Tommie Bartlett was just an announcer when he was tapped to take over his gruelling assignment...
...early career on the air, The Missus Goes to Market opened 10,000 new outlets for Automatic Soap Flakes. Similarly successful, Meet the Missus has attracted a million requests for a card game advertised on the program, and pulls 3,000 letters a week. Reveling in his success with the matrons, young Tommie Bartlett earns $22,000 a year, lives handsomely in a duplex apartment on Lake Shore Drive. A feature of almost every berry, corn and apple festival around Chicago, Bachelor Tommie has so far received 20 proposals of marriage, inherited $5,000 from one mike-struck listener...