Word: rhymers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...written by ''the Corn-Law rhymer" Ebenezer Elliott, in the 18405. After he had lost his wife's money in business, Elliott sang wrathfully of unwise tax and trade laws. *All the speakers at the Institute spoke in English, although some of them (Uruguay's Larreta, Italy's De Gasperi and Turkey's Yalman) did so with difficulty. Padilla explained his linguistic temerity in a characteristic introduction: "Many years ago I arrived at Paris, and I met and had a very nice friendship with a girl from Hungary. She did not at that time...
...home towns have been so profitably exploited as Bloomington, 111. (pop.: 32,868). Bloomington is the boyhood home of Paul Rhymer and the locale of his dearly beloved Vic and Sade (NBC, Mon. through Fri., 10:15-10:30 a.m., C.W.T.) -probably, the best, certainly one of the smallest soap operas...
...Does He Do It? How these characters manage to convey reality to radio listeners is something of a mystery even to Author Rhymer. He does not know how he does it, and is inclined to give the credit to actors Bernardine Flynn, a fugitive from Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude, and Art Van Harvey, ex-grain broker, advertising man and vaudevillian, who have played Sade & Vic Gook from the beginning. Says Rhymer: "They could read aloud from the telephone directory and sound entertaining...
...Rhymer was once amazed at NBC because "you make me sound eccentric." He wrote his own autobiography for the publicity department: "The place of my birth was Fulton, 111. I tarried there a week. My family then moved to Bloomington, where I attended school for 14 years, at the end of which time I was a junior at Illinois Wesleyan University, wore wide pants and said 'hey, hey' conservatively on occasion...
...Rhymer gets about $35,000 a year for doing so. An ex-newspaper reporter who got fired for writing news stories about people he had not interviewed, he is intimately acquainted with some of his radio characters (they are among his mother's best Bloomington friends). He is an incorrigible practical joker. He once named all of NBC's vice presidents in his script as a gang of jailbirds, and is given to telling strangers that his handsome wife is three-quarters Eskimo, allergic to heat...