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...Most pretentious and certainly the corniest air newcomer last week was Celebrity Minstrels, off to a four-week try-out on NBC-Blue (Tuesdays 9:30 to 10 E.S.T.) as a possible summer substitute for one of the big shows. To prove his point that there is a bit of minstrelsy in every man, Producer Mort Lewis (If I Had The Chance) got Cartoonist Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka} and Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg as regular endmen, Actor Ezra Stone and Announcer Harry von Zell as extras, Jay C. Flippen as interlocutor. Celebrity Minstrels opened with Oh, Dem Golden Slippers...
...Danube receded, Rumania's 60,000 professional fishermen prepared to gather their regular harvest of carp and sturgeon trapped in canals and streams. And as spring surged up the Danube groups of young men in national costume moved from place to place, dancing in each village, in a four-week jaunt that dates from the days of the dancing priests of Attis. Over the white, dusty plains of Hungary, where white oxen and long-horned cattle range on the tough grass, the 3,000,000 peasants were out in their fields and the movement of people through the countryside...
...Boston Bruins, National Hockey League champions: the four-week, post-season playoffs for the Stanley Cup, No. 1 prize in professional hockey; defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs in the final series; four games to one. It was their first Stanley Cup victory since...
...Pikeville (pop. 3,376), in the drab, hilly, coal-mining country at Kentucky's eastern point, its First National Bank is a wonder that never pales. First National's employes, who start at $85 a month and get four-week vacations, try "to treat each customer as if he was their mother or father or sister or brother." All day every day, customers are entertained not only by the organ but by a 23-tube radio phonograph, playing in subdued tones requests ranging from Toscanini to Whiteman...
...religious education department, called upon President Roosevelt at the White House. Ensued some joking about a mutual interest of the President and the prelate-deep-sea fishing. Then, with the blessings of the White House and the U. S. State Department, Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy departed on a four-week, 18,000-mile airplane trip around South America (TIME...