Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carried his program along on NBC. In his dry, unhappy, singsong drawl, Allen will still handle 60% of the dialogue, manage, between musical pauses, to give his own news of the week, interview unexpected guests, preside over the dramatic doings of the Mighty Allen Art Players. For his famed ad libs a few minutes will be reserved as usual on each of the weekly shows...
...biggest problem of the week was that of shelter. In the first months of the war the Government distributed Anderson shelters (named for Minister for Home Security Sir John Anderson), light steel affairs for back yards. They were designed to 'stop splinters, not bombs, and have proved ad mirable for that limited purpose. Their great fault was that they were not big enough to sleep...
...portrayals of Concho, the Lone Rider's Indian chum, by flap-eared, long-nosed Bert Gordon (Radio's "Mad Russian"), whose accent is as thick as borsch with sour cream. Filling in for Ruby Keeler, who left the company in Chicago when ex-Husband Jolson's ad-libbing got in her hair, neatly turned Eunice Healey steps with precision through a show-stopping...
...since 1920 has the U. S. Army employed the services of an advertising agency for getting results. Three weeks ago, to speed recruiting, it set aside $250,000, invited six U. S. ad agencies to submit plans for an advertising campaign. Last week it announced the winner: Philadelphia's 71-year-old, high-minded N. W. Ayer & Son, which contributed (for $1) the celebrated Blue Eagle to the New Deal's NRA. On the Army's $250.000, Ayer will collect a commission...
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