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...definitely apocryphal. Don himself recalls hearing the same gag told back in 1926 before he entered radio, as having happened to an Uncle "Gee Bee," a radio uncle on the now defunct New York station WGBS. Incidentally . . . Uncle Don started a new half-hour series on WOR March 1 in the new role of "Children's Disc Jockey...
When Uncle Don (real name: Howard Rice) was going strongest, in the early '30s, about 25% of all radios in WOR's New York area were daily tuned to his wheedling, down-on-hands-&-knees half hour for the kiddies. Last week Uncle Don's Hooper rating had sagged so low that WOR decided to drop his 19-year-old daily program, leaving him, for the moment, only his Sunday morning session of reading-the-funnies. Explained a WOR official: "No one has ever felt quite the same about him since the Incident...
...cause of Dr. Ferguson's long-suffering : WOR's Tello-Test quiz. On this five-a-week show, announcers telephone a housewife, offer $5 if she can answer a question in one minute. If she fails, another $5 is added, another number is called. Brooklyn listeners telephone the library as soon as they hear the question, hoping their number may be next. The library's calm is shattered during every broadcast. Concluded Dr. Ferguson stiffly: "The identification of 'Lemonade Lucy'* or the architect of the White House . . . seems of small moment...
Fred Van Deventer, a newscaster for New York's WOR, took Nancy's idea to WOR and Mutual. The Van Deventers had played the old parlor game-also known as "Twenty Questions"-for years; it had been a favorite of Fred's since he played it as a boy in Indiana. Mutual gave it a try, with the Van Deventers (minus Nancy, who had to go back to school) as the backbone of the experts' panel. In less than five months, the show was the new gee-whiz quiz in radio. Last week, Twenty Questions (Mutual...
...first half-hour program made it evident that Manhattan's WOR had a kid-show formula that would give the precocious Quiz Kids a run for their money. This week, after five trial broadcasts, the Mutual show goes coast-to-coast (Saturday, June 15, 8:30 p.m. E.D.S.T...