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...Idle Hands. A man who hates to know the time of day (it is always later than he thinks), Caniff gets to his studio late in the forenoon, spends his daylight hours writing with his right hand, drawing and drinking coffee with his left. "It's hell being your own master," he says. "You work a 40-hour day instead of a 40-hour week." His pretty blonde wife, Esther-he calls her Bunny-brings the coffee, gets the meals and keeps guests from gumming up the production line. Slim, slack-clad Bunny Caniff doesn't have much...
Parade on Main Street. By early forenoon 2,500 people had crowded into town and Doc MacKinnon was standing in a reviewing stand watching 450 of his "babies" march past, with stork-decorated floats, and a band. After that he was presented with a shiny 1946 Ford, and led before a microphone...
Bowen breakfasted at 7, Houghton and Stuart at 9. Stuart spent the forenoon writing on his pet subject: New Testament criticism. At lunch all three took turns reading aloud the German war communiques from the English edition of Osaka Mainichi. High point of the day was "cocktail hour," when the three met to re-chew the morsels of news they had read at lunch. Every night Houghton and Stuart played anagrams-altogether 1,500 games. (Dr. Houghton wrote a book on anagrams which should be the definitive work...
...grande dame of magazine heart-tuggers had never paid much attention to the radio until last summer, when Novelist Husband Charles (Brass, Bread, Salt) became ill and had a spell of enforced listening. When Swan wanted a new writer for its 3½-year-old forenoon romance, indefatigable Mrs. Norris, 64, jumped at the chance to "start a new line." She found it easy work: "In magazines you have to fill in with long, luxurious descriptions...
...grown-up quiz program outgrew the lonely forenoon and joined the busy night air last week. A rising chorus of fan mail persuaded BBC and the Blue network to shift their Transatlantic Quiz from Saturday mornings to 10 p.m. Tuesdays (E.W.T.), and to boost the show from 15 minutes to a solid half hour. In its new spot Transatlantic will compete with Bob Hope-but the audience appeal is hardly the same...