Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday morning, an edited story about children's radio programs came to Radio Researcher Jean Sulzberger from the copy desk. It had been written from research sent in by our Washington Bureau. Its lead paragraph was three stanzas of a poem (a parody of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Children's Hour) by the late Stoddard King, newspaperman, versifier and songwriter. Permission to reprint King's verse would have to be obtained from the copyright owner, but that is usually routine. This time it wasn...
That was all right except for two things: 1) copyright permission might not rest with Doubleday; 2) TIME'S Radio Department goes to press Sunday night...
...fairly serious attempt to take four large U.S. social groups, personify them-and play them for laughs. In other hands this idea has produced, at best, good caricatures. Allen has built it into at least two larger-than-life characters and a wealth of thoughtful jests. Each Sunday (8:30 p.m., E.S.T., NBC), as he wanders through the Alley, Allen visits...
...Fred is a panhandler's dreamboat. For ten years an old vaudevillian named Wilbur used to rap at the door of the Allen apartment every Sunday afternoon. Every time, Fred lectured him sternly, finally gave him $10 "for the last time." Portland once caught Wilbur before he knocked, told him Fred was out of town. Fred waited, got more & more restless. When he had worked himself into a nervous lather, Portland relented, confessed. Next Sunday Fred lectured Wilbur twice as hard, gave...
Acting in a typical buildoggish manner, it appears, the Record's editors somehow got wind of the project, telephoned local distributors to get out the issue ahead of time, and spent Saturday and Sunday rubbing their hands in glee...