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...five in Washington alone, playing for some Congressman or other. 'Whaddya doin' with 187 of them and cutting $5,000,000,000 from the Air Force?' I said. If they cut that thing down to a hundred they save a billion a year. Maybe that ain't the figure . . . I'm no Walter Reuther. I ain't got 15 guys gettin' the facts...
Just what housewives all over the Midwest love about the Breakfast Club is hard to define. Don McNeill explains the show as "just a guy talking, then another guy talking, then a couple of people singing, and an orchestra. It ain't anything." But in 20 years his salary has risen from $50 to nearly $4,000 a week, paid by four sponsors (Swift & Co., Philco, O-Cedar and Toni). For this stipend, McNeill gives his listeners four "calls to breakfast," written to "snappy" tunes. Between songs, Don keeps things lively with what he calls "witty, quaint sayings." Samples...
...Stuart Symington, former Secretary of the Air Force, got a seat on the Armed Services Committee. When the old hands protested, Johnson called (as he often does) on a Texas-flavored story. A boy he knew, he said, complained that his brother had been "twowheres and I ain't been nowheres." There was no sense, said Johnson, in seating senior Senators twowheres or threewheres on important committees while good freshmen went nowhere...
...very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful...
...your leadership the world will be spared the horrors of a third world war." Replied the President: "You are leaving behind you a heritage of great achievement." ¶ Attended the yearly dinner of the White House Correspondents Association, grinned unfalteringly through a skit burlesquing his golf ("Be thankful he ain't a bowler"), a prolonged wink from Songstress Ethel Merman (I Get a Kick Out of You), a running patter of Comedian Bob Hope. Some Hope-isms: "It is a great pleasure to be here, entertaining our President. Of course, I had to sell all my Paramount stock before...