Word: wor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past few weeks such plaints have been pouring into Newark's station WOR, addressed to a program called Here's Looking at You. Originated by Pegeen Fitzgerald, erstwhile fashion director in a Manhattan department store, and Richard Willis, onetime cinema makeup man, Here's Looking at You is broadcast twice weekly from New York's World's Fair, features a 15-minute beauty and fashion analysis of studio visitors depressed by their appearance...
Originally WOR feared that the program would attract no volunteers, was soon assuaged in a homely rush. Tactful but frank, Fitzgerald & Willis let the ladies discuss their own drawbacks, are always hopeful even when confronted with a clock-stopping face. Typical guinea-pig comment: "I hate to be homely. My mother's good-looking . . . and it makes me feel like such a lummox...
...more complicated situation will occur on WOR's Meet Miss Julia in September when Helene Freeman (who plays a young matron named Sandra Wilson) intends to take a vacation. At the present time the charming Sandra is married to a loony who is being treated in a private sanatorium. In order to get Sandra off the air, her unstable spouse will be permitted to escape from the asylum. Thereupon Sandra will have to go and look...
...called it "shibboleth" were Ephraimites, got killed. Last week many a shibboleth was voiced on a new Mutual network program called Where Are You From? Dr. Henry Lee Smith Jr., smart, wispy-mustached, 26-year-old Columbia University lecturer in English, cocked an expert ear when members of a WOR studio audience read improbable statements like the following...
Where Are You From? began last year when Maurice Dreicer, who was conducting a program called The Speechmaster for Brooklyn's small station WCNW, put on Dr. Smith as a guest. Lofty-browed station WQXR built a program around the young lecturer; WOR and the Mutual chain signed him up a month ago. Program time: 8:30 p.m. E. D. S. T. on Wednesdays...