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Distaff: Button-popping with pride was pop-eyed Eddie Cantor, sonless father of five; a daughter had popped up with bells on in show business. Off the family payroll, onto Manhattan station WNEW's as a staff announcer was 21-year-old Marilyn, happily no spittin' image...
...Poonsters G. B. Davis '41, Russell Bowie '41, Coles Phinizy '42 and W. B. G. Putnam '41 drew an airwave grand slam when New York station WNEW dealt them a fourteen-week contract to be "funny" every Friday night at 8 o'clock beginning this week...
Over three independent Manhattan stations (WNEW, WMCA, WHN) ASCAP last week aired a batch of Cole Porter music on a Tums Pot o' Gold program. On hand was Porter himself, who made a speech defending ASCAP's position in its war with B. M. I. One purpose of the show: to find out whether the lure of ASCAP music would attract more listeners in Manhattan than the networks (vowed to B. M. I. tunes) could entice. This week ASCAP will continue its test, guest-starring Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. On the national front, meanwhile, ASCAP will...
Among the half-dozen U. S. stations which Variety dubbed tops, two (WOR and WNEW) were in Manhattan; one each in Cleveland (WGAR); Atlanta (WSB); Beckley, W. Va. (WJLS); McComb, Miss. (WSKB). None was in Chicago, which Variety rated the worst town for show management...
Only sporadically sponsored, McCoy has made little money out of his program. But last week he had an audition with Manhattan's WNEW, was hopeful that shortly his show would bring him cash as well as credit...