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McCoy has conducted his nightly grillings on & off since early last year. Beginning at the World's Fair Midway, he has pitched his way through Ripley's Odditorium on Broadway, is stationed now in the lobby of a Child's Broadway restaurant. No stooges participate in his shows. Everyone is welcomed to his mike except roaring drunks and obvious lunatics. He entices clients from Manhattan crowds by rumbling: "Step up, brother, stop your mad rush to the grave," proceeds to subject them to a barrage of jests, jibes and singularly unabashed questions. At high speed, he whirls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The McCoy | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...Odditorium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...TlME, PAGE 42, ARTICLE HEADED "LISTEN GODOY" REFERS TO "WE, THE PEOPLE" AS "SANKA COFFEE'S TUESDAY-NIGHT ODDITORIUM OF THE AIR." MAY I CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT "ODDITORIUM OF THE AIR" IS OWNED BY MYSELF AND APPLIED TO MY OWN "BELIEVE IT OR NOT" PROGRAM, SPONSORED BY ROYAL CROWN COLA, FRIDAYS OVER 89 CBS STATIONS FROM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Odditorium is Ripley's, believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Last week, on We, the People, Sanka Coffee's Tuesday-night odditorium of the air, Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis and his freak-style opponent of last fortnight, Arturo Godoy from Chile, faced each other anew. Joe said fighting Godoy had been just like "sittin' in a big easy chair, restin'." Arturo boasted that after "the fight he still had enough left to step-'but with his wife and "just go do little rumba." Back home, said Godoy to Joe and his radio audience (about 7,000,000), he had big brothers, "good fighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Listen, Godoy | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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