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...beard, would you want him to sleep with it under or over the cover?" Posing questions like this to Chicago housewives, redhaired, babyfaced, 26-year-old Tommie Bartlett has become the guiding star of two of the cutest, corniest radio programs in the U. S. Known as Meet the Missus and The Missus Goes to Market, the Bartlett shows are broadcast from recordings each morning except Sunday over station WBBM, potently plug the virtues of Kitchen Klenzer, Big Jack Soap, Automatic Soap Flakes. Last week, in a lather of success, Tommie Bartlett was airing his performances under a new contract...
...show 100-odd women the sponsors' 100-odd products. Tommie shouts "Hello, girls!" at the assembled matrons. Ten minutes later, after the girls are all in spasms at Tommie, who thinks nothing of rolling on the floor to get them giggling, WBBM technicians begin to record Meet the Missus. Twittering like sparrows, yanking nervously at their girdles, some of Tommie 's girls answer questions about their clothes, husbands, honeymoons, aspirations, frustrations, children, while the rest of them hoot and howl. Perennial query in the Bartlett questionnaire: "If you were to become a motion-picture actress, what actor would...
...putting together The Missus Goes to Market, Bartlett employs the same technique, substituting for the Guild as the locale for his giddy interviews grocery stores in Chicago and Midwest towns. Collecting 75 to 125 housewives before his mike in a store, Bartlett grills them on such topics as whether they kissed their husbands the first time they met, rewards them with autographed soap boxes for responding. Also aired as a recording, it is assured an audience of housewives, eager to hear how they sound on the radio...
...Iowa Attorney-General Fred D. Everett: "They would have been wed had the pastor declared them Mister and Missus...
More gravely than if he were picking Miss America, David Lasser had his witnesses choose Mr. & Mrs. WPA Worker of 1938. As the No. 1 Missus of Relief, they named Mrs. Stanley Jorgensen of Provo, Utah. Provo merchants had chipped in $100 to pay her way to Washington so she could ask for more WPA money to go into storekeepers' tills. Mrs. Jorgensen's husband supports her and two children on $44 a month, of which he pays $15 for rent on a single room, $18 for groceries. A Mormon, Mrs. Jorgensen said her church's famed...