Word: stints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brash, bumptious Henry Morgan loves nothing more than to curdle the milk of radio's sacred cows. On his 15-minute comic stint, Here's Morgan (WOR, 6:45 p.m., E.W.T., Mon. through Fri.), he worries the stuffing from many a radio shirtfront, mocks soap operas, commercials, himself, his station. Last week he went to work on Mutual in a big way. Out over WOR, Mutual's Manhattan outlet, went a startling satire-a monologue on "The Strange Disappearance of the Mutual Network." Listeners heard razor-edged remarks on Mutual's recent loss of The Lone...
...James Abbe, father of Patience, Richard and Johnny (whose Around the World in Eleven Years was a best-seller in 1936), turned up in Portland, Ore. last week as that city's first full-time radio newscaster. Now 59, tiny, egg-bald Abbe began a two-a-day stint for the Oregonian's twin stations KGW and KEX. Said he: "All my life editors told me to photograph or write but for God's sake stop talking. Now I can talk...
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, better known as the brains of wooden Charlie McCarthy, was booked on the college circuit last week. His stint: a two-lecture stand at the University of California at Los Angeles. Purpose: to give hopeful undergraduate script writers a working view of good gags, bad gags, comic ideas-right out of a horsing mouth...
General Wavell's Chief of Staff will be General Sir Henry Royds Pownall, who has just done a one-two-three stint as Commander in Chief of British forces in the Far East. A logical choice, from the looks of things...
Because of his World War I stint, Herrington knew that the tremendous traction of his all-wheel trucks would be useful in anyone's army. So he prepared for the boom; 30 days after the Germans broke into Poland, Herrington broke ground for a fivefold expansion of plant facilities. Then he expanded again & again. His output is now 20-25 times that of August 1939, still going...