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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the casualty list continued to grow. Edgar Bergen announced that he was leaving NBC and radio after Dec. 26, and taking Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Flight of the Comedians | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...Edgar Bergen, perhaps jealous of Charlie McCarthy, is building up the billing of Mortimer Snerd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Comes September | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Last week the new Howdy, looking more like Pinocchio and less like Mortimer Snerd, was joined to the old voice. "I think your new face is beautiful," wrote one little admirer. But youngsters who are suffering through television's growing pains will have their loyalties severely strained this week when Peter Pixie, a new property of Puppeteer Paris, turns up on a rival station, the New York Daily News's WPIX. The old Howdy, says Paris, is "only good for kindling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Vanishing Puppet | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...soon broadcast for the first time a new suite based on eight 20th Century ''folk tunes." The title: Jingles All the Way, No. 2.* The composer: Canadian Howard Cable. The themes: the Dentyne, Adam Hat, Colgate, Richfield Oil, Super Suds, Chiclets, Pepsodent singing commercials, plus the Mortimer Snerd leitmotiv from the Edgar Bergen show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Folksy | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Wallace? How about Mr. Snerd? Mor- timer, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1946 | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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