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...first half-hour program made it evident that Manhattan's WOR had a kid-show formula that would give the precocious Quiz Kids a run for their money. This week, after five trial broadcasts, the Mutual show goes coast-to-coast (Saturday, June 15, 8:30 p.m. E.D.S.T...
Time was lost. Three years they were, and this was the struggle to recapture them. Summer School, Army credits, maybe a few other angles that would get him out of school at a respectable age. He thought he was behind them, his old roommates kid sister who was now getting her Master's and the gal from Newton who had a six-months old infant. And even the guy from the next entry, now an English A section man. He was way behind, he thought and he'd have to catch up. Vag knew it would mean work...
...Today he can gallop through a technical book, or one on philosophy or art, and then give without a stumble a half-hour precis of its contents. In lectures and debates at the Sorbonne, in meetings of legal and philosophical societies, he shines-a grinning, grown-up Quiz-kid with a cowlick over his forehead...
Dave Rose, who hated piano lessons as a kid, was only 17 when he became Ted Fio Rito's tricky pianist in 1927. For the next ten years, he mingled with the great and near-great of Chicago's golden days of popular music, playing or arranging for Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Bud Freeman...
Rogers, privately endorsed by Kenny and publicly supported by "liberal" Author Carey McWilliams, suddenly saw Patterson billboards everywhere he turned. Democratic regulars sniffed a putsch, peeled off their kid gloves...