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Among refugees who arrived in North America last week were: Poet Robert William Service, short, red-faced, British-born author of many a hairy-chested ballad (The Cremation of Sam McGee, Shooting of Dan McGrew), resident of France for the past 28 years; Mrs. Somerset Maugham, wife of the British author; Baron Maurice ("Momo") de Rothschild, soft, luxury-loving French representative of the famed international banking family; Mrs. Dorothy Round Little, British ten-nist, twice winner of the Wimbledon singles, and son; three waifish guests of J. Pierpont Morgan: George Harry Vivian Smith, 6, Ann Smith, 1, Lord Primrose...
...million-dollar" contract he wangled with Pepsodent, which transformed Amos 'n' Andy from a sustaining show into a national institution in 1929. A great one for soap operas, he can still point with pride to such Trammell-promoted shows as Clara, Lu 'n' Em, Fibber McGee and Molly, Betty and Bob, Ma Perkins...
Filling in for Fibber McGee and Molly last year, blind Pianist Alec Templeton made such a hit that he was signed by Alka-Seltzer in September. Last year The Aldrich Family, after a spell on Kate Smith's show, substituted for Jack Benny, wound up with a winter spot...
...Meredith Willson' s Musical Revue, substituting for Fibber McGee & Molly over NBC's red network from 9:30 to 10 on Tuesdays...
...made WLS a public servant in the Midwest. Most famed alumnus of WLS programs is Gene Autry, who once sang on the Barn Dance. So did Ruth Etting, at first for nothing and then for $5 a night. Tony Wons read poetry and streamlined Shakespeare for the station. Fibber McGee & Molly worked there before they adopted those names, as did Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden, now known as Amos 'n' Andy. For ten years the station has received more than 1,000,000 letters annually, a record...