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Want a Laugh? A gang of Brooklynites make weekly book on the program, betting on their favorites to win. That disturbs the three showmen. Says Laurie: "We're worried to death some night a gunman will come into the studio and say 'Keep the fourth joke under 70. fellers, we're out for a killing...
...Arsenal doubtfully doled out 2-4 pieces of precious optical glass, told the amateurs to go ahead and try. The amateurs failed to hit the mark at their first attempts. Porter, Ingalls & Person thereupon lined up So top-notch amateurs, named them "The Gang," sent them instructions, set up a system of postcard communication, soon began to deliver roof prisms by the thousand...
Industrialist Harriman, 51, looked like a good man for the job. Despite his glittering social background Harriman is no playboy. He has worked on a section gang, was a surveyor, once worked as a fireman on the Union Pacific. Now U.P.'s chairman of the board, he is known as one of the most liberal of U.S. industrialists, is also known as a hardheaded businessman who has made (and sometimes lost) millions on flyers...
There was one camp Hope did not get to-so to catch his performance 600 men tramped ten miles across the moors, could not get within earshot, started tramping back again. After the show Hope heard about them, tossed his gang into jeeps, overtook the hikers and, in a drenching downpour, clowned for 40 minutes...
...expect they need kicking sometimes but I don't do it and I don't want my men to do it. ... I have been just as good as possible in the chain gang. . . . It's all a frame-up. There ain't nothing...