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This stunt sale was typical of a new radio program, Auction Show (Mon., 10 p.m., E.W.T.), thought up by chubby, energetic Dave Elman, who is full of such ideas. Elman, who has been in show business since he was six, already has one big network show, Hobby Lobby (CBS, Thurs., 9:30 p.m., E.W.T.), which has brought him $350,000 since 1937. (It features people with silly pastimes, such as inventing a pants-puller-upper, collecting baby elephant hairs, compiling unfunny jokes.) He has been trying to repeat Hobby's success ever since. Among his previous tries...
Martin Bookspan '47 was elected President of the Crimson Network to succeed John M. B. Churchill '45 in elections at the Network's Dudley Hall studies Sunday night. Bookspan will retain his position as Classical Music Director...
...child listens to the radio about 14 hours a week, reported N.A.B. Yet, judging from a survey made in schools in the Kansas City area, even second-graders prefer adult programs to the tepid gruel of hackneyed high adventure served up specially for them by breakfast-food programs. (Network children's shows are down from 40 in 1940 to 27 this year...
There were still skeptics; they pointed out that she had a sure-fire spot-right after Bing Crosby. Now long-nosed, twangy Joan Davis is on another network, with another sponsor (CBS, Mon., 8:30-9:00 p.m., E.W.T.) and all on her own. Her first step on the new show was to change the village store to a tearoom. Like most successful female zanies, she would now like to be a little more dignified about it; Joan Davis' manhunting haunt act on Tea Room is considerably more decorous than her old show. Says she: "In my heart...
...station, founded by Detroit News Publisher William E. Scripps, this year chalked up still another first: it was the first big network station to ban all electrical transcriptions...