Word: ignoramus
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...Howard, who reached this profound conclusion last week, should know. For 40 years he has been offering the very same brand of knockabout comedy that is now devoted to the flow of Piel's beer on Manhattan's station WOR. As ignoramus-in-chief of radio's least erudite quiz show, It Pays To Be Ignorant (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m., E.W.T.), he is one of the most faithful toilers in the old vaudeville garden...
Congressional mail grew heavy and hot. Members began to dodge and weasel. Some talked back. Snapped Washington's Representative Martin F. Smith: "What object is there in making a Congressman look like an ignoramus and a crook?" Michigan's Representative Frank E. Hook hinted darkly that the Bundles for Congress movement was a Nazi plot. But most knew, with familiar dread, that this one issue might ruin them in their home district. A repeal movement grew...
...self-confessed ignoramus about publishing, Engineer-Editor Lasley regards money-making as no bar to respectable publishing. Last week he broke with PM's ad-less tradition by selling space in Parade's Tennessean section to the Nashville Gas & Heating Co. Later, if present progress continues, he plans a fat ad budget. He continues to function as efficiency expert, selling ideas to a soap and a steel company. But he shows no inclination to retire as editor of Parade, no matter if it makes a million...
...Reuther? Walter Reuther is no Ford, no Knudsen. Neither is he an ignoramus about the automobile industry. A skilled tool-&-die maker for 13 years. he was once good enough to be foreman of a Ford tool-&-die shop. Meantime he studied economics in a university night school, later taught toolmaking in Russia. China, Japan, now knows the automobile industry union-side...
...agreed with him last May, after the first flush of German air triumphs in Norway, would have meant that the admirals yielded an inch or so in the hot controversy between sea and air power. Naval officers in Washington privately suggested that Mr. Edison was a bit of an ignoramus. Charles Edison was glad enough to turn his portfolio over to Pub lisher Frank Knox and get elected Governor of New Jersey...