Word: knockabouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard, who reached this profound conclusion last week, should know. For 40 years he has been offering the very same brand of knockabout comedy that is now devoted to the flow of Piel's beer on Manhattan's station WOR. As ignoramus-in-chief of radio's least erudite quiz show, It Pays To Be Ignorant (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m., E.W.T.), he is one of the most faithful toilers in the old vaudeville garden...
...solve this stuttering maintenance the Army needed an Army man with industry know-how. Glancy's knockabout experience had included engineering in Cuba, managing an iron foundry, a tractor and auto company, and generally trouble shooting for General Motors...
Died. Joseph M. (for Maurice) Weber, 74, the short, barrel-bellied butt of the old Weber & Fields knockabout comedy team; in Los Angeles. For more than half a century gangling, goat-bearded Lew Fields shook and belabored goat-bearded little Joe Weber for his ignorance and insults, joined him in mangling the English language ("I am delightfullness to meet you"), shared with him the glory and profits of being the most popular low-comedy team in theater history. Products of Manhattan's lower East Side, the two grew up together, formed their own road company at 18. Lew Fields...
...goat-bearded tall man who stuck his thumb in the goat-bearded short man's eye died this week in Beverly Hills. He was Lewis Maurice Fields, 74, known to two generations as the aggressive half of Weber & Fields, the greatest knockabout comedy team in theater history...