Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post-war vaudeville, low-slung Jim and Marion Jordan (he 5 ft. 6, she 5 ft. 4), a married musical pair, never got near the Palace. They never got far in radio until they met a fat, frustrated but merry cartoonist named Don Quinn, who gagged better than he drew. Quinn devised a skit called Smack Out, in which Jim ran a grocery that was always smack out of everything but the proprietor's tall stories...
...bars, cabbies, business executives, housewives tuned it in regularly. There were arguments fit to kill, rare old Fourth-Ward oratory, Tweedledums-&-dees all over the house. One week listeners might be treated to an afternoon of old Roman allegory, in re the city's garbage policy. Democrat Hugh Quinn and the late Laborite B. Charney Vladeck once had it hot & heavy over their respective forefathers. Said Vladeck to Quinn: "Were your forefathers never in jail?" "Never!" boasted Quinn. "Well then," pronounced old Charney, "they weren't much Irish...