Word: shriners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polished up a speech and got out his red fez for an appearance at the 75th national Shriner convention in Chicago this week (see Cover Story...
...telephone call from Galloway Calhoun, imperial potentate of the Shrine, who was stranded in Hawaii by Harry Bridges' waterfront strike, and wanted Shriner Truman to do something. Secretary Matt Connelly told him there was nothing the President could...
...view of the news that is reminiscent of Will Rogers. His apprenticeship was served in traveling vaudeville shows ("I used to get $40 a week and all the road maps I could eat"), and as a front-line sergeant-entertainer with the Third Army in Germany. Through an interpreter, Shriner tried out his humor on the Russians. One joke they laughed at: "The mail service in our unit is very good. The mailman delivers packages to us as fast as he can smash them...
...radio show was developed from his act in the current Broadway hit, Inside U.S.A. Shriner was originally hired to do a five-minute monologue, but, in the half-year run of U.S.A., he has gradually edged his monologue up to a high of 18 minutes. "I'm kind of long-winded," he admits...
Gloomily aware of the failure of other young comedians (e.g., Danny Thomas, Jack Paar, Henry Morgan, Danny Kaye) who have tried to buck radio's Old Guard, Shriner feels that he has a few advantages: he can pre-test his radio gags from the stage of Inside U.S.A., and his program has been sponsored from the start, which allows him to hire a topflight script "collaborator." Though he has a complicated broadcast and rebroadcast time schedule (CBS, 5:45 p.m. E.S.T., from New York), Shriner also takes heart from the fact that his Hooperating, which had been a modest...