Word: waxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WORKING THIS WEEK AT THE WAX-WORKS...
...Protective League. When a new sponsor approaches him with a product, Wiley turns it over to 50 of his housewives for testing. They have rejected about half of the products thus offered, have never given him a bum steer. Asked to spiel for a quick-drying floor wax, he tried it on his own floors, reported candidly over the air next day: "This is a good wax, and it's as good as any wax, I suppose. It says on the can it will dry to the touch in four hours. I don't know what drying...
Next to her " 'Tain't funny, McGee," the most reliable line in the weekly Johnson Wax act is the "deef" Old Timer's topper for Fibber's gags: "That's pretty good, Johnny, but that ain't the way I heerd it. . . ." The Old Timer...
...vaudeville couple from Peoria, who 15 years ago were considered washed up-Jim and Marion Jordan. By radio alias they are Fibber McGee and Molly of 79 Wistful Vista. This week they celebrate Fibber & Co.'s fifth season on the air for Johnson's Glo-Coat floor wax.* Last week they made their debut in the dramatic bigtime, playing Mama Loves Papa (a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland movie story) on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre. They let the characterization pass, wrung the gags unmercifully, but no one minded. A year ago Fibber & Co. were metaphorically down among...
...Fibber McGee (Johnson's Wax) told Gracie he has heard whispers about Dewey, Hull, Taft and Garner all heading for the White House. Were they just rumors? Said Gracie: "They...