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Gentile & Binge's success is soundly anchored to a cornerstone of American character: disrespect for pomposity. And the radio industry provides enough pomposity in a day to keep Gentile & Binge in satire for years. Superman occasionally turns up on the program with a heavy Bronx accent. Guest celebrities are interviewed and thrown out of the studio to the sound of a shirt ripping. Weakling children who eat "Tasty Bread" will not merely grow strong, they will begin juggling locomotives. A new electric iron is just the thing for straightening out crumpled car fenders, etc. Gentile & Binge repeatedly make advertising...
Philadelphia's Jane Vaughn Sullivan, a war bride. Co-favorites were 17-year-old Gretchen Merrill, a Boston subdeb, and 14-year-old Dorothy Goos, a giggling Bronx schoolgirl with dreams of a Sonja Henie career. Miss Merrill, twice runner-up to Champion Vaughn, was bent on winning the title for the glory of Boston's skating swells. Miss Goos, a newcomer to senior ranks, was trying to accomplish something no figure skater had ever done: win the novice, junior and senior titles in three successive years...
...school figures (which count 60% in determining a champion), meticulous Miss Merrill, letter-perfect at such difficult tracings as the loop-change-loop and bracket-change-bracket, had a big edge on the kid from The Bronx. In the free skating (five minutes of self-selected routines skated to music) the little gosling ran circles around the whole field. When the counts of the five judges were finally tabulated, they added up to victory for Miss Merrill-with 2,749.12 points to Miss Goos...
Guests of the Hotel Reforma in Mexico City were Errol Leslie Flynn, of Mulholland Farm, Hollywood, and Edward Joseph Flynn, of Lake Mahopac, N.Y., and The Bronx...
Targets for Tonight. In San Francisco, police who arrested Lewis L. Webb after he had shot his hotel room full of holes got an explanation from his 60-year-old wife: somebody had insulted her, and "Lewis was just showing me what he'd do." In The Bronx, Thomas Cunningham, charged with shooting steadily through a neighbor's window at a can of corned beef, explained that the neighbor had been eying his daughter. In Chicago, Gilbert Hayashi explained to police why he had been shooting at his roommate with a bow and arrow: "I am interested...