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Punchboard Padres. An indictment charging an arm-long list of felonies accused the fake clergy of collecting money under false pretenses. In ten years of canvassing Manhattan for a non-existent shelter, nursery, and boys' camp, said the District Attorney, they had collected more than half a million dollars...
...mother in her mid-twenties, Storyteller Lydia Perera (in private life Mrs. Wil Marcus of Boston, Mass.) is a rarity among children's entertainers-she has a sense of humor and a sense of children's dignity that keep her from acting either cute or brimful of fake wonder. For her novel program, listeners send in lists of "any three things in the world," and around the three things Lydia writes her Story to Order. Sometimes they come out fantasies, sometimes realistic dramas, sometimes burlesques. Most of them are pretty good...
...work half a day in a bank, while my in-laws take care of my daughter. Herb's letters are full of our little girl: 'How is she? Has she stopped wetting the bed? Does she talk about me?' I have to fill my letters with fake stories about her, for when I come home from the bank I find that if she wants to play outside without her sweater on, or if she wants candy, Herb's parents let her. I know Herb will notice the difference...
...biggest fake quasi-officially presented to the American people today is the suggestion that Mr. Acting President James Byrnes is 'studying' the question of sports to determine if it will be necessary to close the professional games in order to solve the manpower problem...
...clock each night than he could gain by closure of all professional sports in America. . . . There could be no point in asking for the few thousands of men in sports and ignoring the hundreds of thousands in other entertainments unless the whole business were a fake and sports were being used as the whipping...