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...Grand Hotel program. This got him an NBC job writing for Rudy Vallee's hour, as well as a Wednesday after-midnight radio dreadful called Lights Out. After two eldritch years, during which Lights Out collected a batch of eerie-minded fan clubs and curdled more next-door neighbors than any program on the air, Arch Oboler left the series in other hands, feeling that not even he could top the high in horror he had by then achieved...
Inez Callaway Robb's career has been the kind every pencil-nibbling journalism-school co-ed dreams about. California-born and Idaho-raised, she earned her first silk stockings scribbling high-school notes for the city editor of the Boise Capital News, a next-door neighbor. After a course at University of Missouri's famed School of Journalism, she landed a reporting job on the Tulsa World, pasted everything she wrote into a scrapbook. One day, between trains in Chicago, she dropped into the Tribune office, left the scrapbook. Within a fortnight she had a wire from...
...sped up to The Bronx where Congo was put into a quarantined cage until 15 days prove he has no hoof & mouth disease. He kicked up his heels, seemed in fine fettle, enjoyed a nice mess of elm leaves. One of only four okapis in captivity.* Congo discovered his next-door neighbor was Doreen, the bongo, a rare West-African antelope that, until his arrival, was the zoo's most valuable specimen. Commented Dr. Blair, "Oh. her nose doesn't seem much out of joint...
...wise and sunny character of the small-town father was allowed to grow naturally out of the story. In Fulton of Oak Falls it seems necessary for other members of the cast to butter him incessantly with such adjectives as "good," "gentle," "saintly," "grand" and "steady." He tells his next-door neighbor, a clergyman, that he was in love when he was young, that the girl went to Heaven, that although he has carried on as a good citizen, churchgoer and family man, his memories are what he cherishes most. "I never understood you until now," says the clergyman...
...Buhl, to improve the lot of Belgian orphans. The fund was so well administered by an unpaid staff that it has only recently been exhausted, all the orphans having grown up. Today Mr. & Mrs. Phillips live in a commodious house on upper Massachusetts Ave., sharing a garden with their next-door neighbor, Hungary's Count Laszlo Szechenyi. There they dine the diplomats whom it is their job to dine, but otherwise do not entertain inordinately. Aloof and polished William Phillips has many friends but few close ones. In spite of a good sense of humor, he is so cautious...