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This summer The Aldrich Family will once again replace Benny, offering instead of his unctuous patter the best juvenile program that has ever appeared on the air. Written by amiable Playwright Clifford Goldsmith, featuring 21 -year-old, crack-voiced prodigy Ezra Stone, The Aldrich Family will continue to relate the trials & tribulations of adolescent Henry Aldrich, who first turned up in Manhattan in 1937 in the George Abbott comedy What a Life. Besides The Aldrich Family, radio's summer substitute fare (on Eastern Daylight Saving Time) will include: >Abbott & Costello, oldtime vaudevillians, who will split with Mr. District Attorney...
...most of Wall Street and the New Deal preferred to keep the market open. Brokers naturally wanted to continue pocketing commissions on two-and-three-million-share days. Administration skeptics discounted the small investors' pleas because a suspicious number had been telephone calls from women using the same patter, apparently instructed by panic-provokers. In addition they argued...
Good-humored, large and shrewd, Ameringer's story does not idealize the proletariat, rings in no abstruse Marxian patter, no unbuttoned revolutionary blab. He makes a roaring farce out of the campaign of the poor to elect picturesque Jack Walton to the Governorship of Oklahoma; after election, the man of the people took to plus fours and golf with oil magnates...
...modern war there are four main fronts-military, diplomatic, economic, propagandist. To get a line on the patter and pattern of propaganda from its talkiest medium, CBS has had a staff of reporter-linguists listening day & night to Europe's radio since the first days of World War II. Main idea has been to enable CBS's home commentators to sort news from propaganda for radio listeners. But the by-product has been an increasing sheaf of notes, observations, comparisons, verbatim broadcasts which, by themselves, constitute a fairly complete documentation of the technique of war propaganda, as practiced...
...Wodehousebroken readers, each of their master's novels is as good as the last, perhaps even a little better. Last week's Wodehouse, both in patter & pattern, they found as engagingly inane as ever. For Uncle Fred in the Springtime has the usual bubbling dialogue, the same jolly old set of characters, the same intricately improbable plot clicking along with the dizzy precision of a circus...