Word: slo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frequently Professor Briggs interrupts his show to put in a plug for the Slo-Gro Corp. of America, makers of an ointment that retards the growth of hair and so permits users to reduce their barber bills. A great one for contests, the Professor has introduced the Slo-Gro Triple-or-Nothing, Take-it-or-Stuff-it, True-Blue Americana Quiz, on which contestants have a chance to make $50,000, provided they can figure out such problems as getting the cube root of 11,682⅞ within three seconds flat. No one as yet has won any prizes...
...produces this load of lunacy is none other than amiable Jim Moran. He is Professor Briggs. He is his own musical director, a job that involves nothing more than changing records as he goes along. He is also the Slo-Gro Corp. Softspoken, Virginia-born, 33-year-old Joker Moran is famous for having hunted for a needle in a haystack (see cut), sold an icebox to an Eskimo, reenacted the battle of Bunker Hill with twelve strabismic stooges to prove that Colonel Prescott was silly when he issued the command: "Don't fire until you see the white...