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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the Manhattan tabloid Daily News, got interested in sex determination. He hired a couple of scientists, set them to work in an old laboratory douching rats and rabbits. For two years the News has issued bulletins on the sex of its baby rats. Alleged rate of success: 75%. Last month, Professor Elmer Roberts of the University of Illinois, working independently of the News, announced that he had predetermined the sex of 1,800 rats. At the same time, Dr. Leon Jacob Cole of the University of Wisconsin reported that, with his rats and rabbits...
Aside from Franklin Roosevelt-who is rated an amateur-smooth-tongued, silver-haired, 46-year-old Funnyman Jack Benny is the biggest voice in radio. With a Crossley (Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting) rating of 42.4, an estimated audience of 11,000,000 families, he is so important to General Foods, his sponsor, that the company devotes more than three-quarters of its advertising appropriation for Jell-O to his show. Just what it costs to ballyhoo Jell-O is something General Foods keeps under its hat. But no secret is the staggering gross that Benny will rake in this year...
...Jell-O script is turned out by a 33-year-old wag named Bill Morrow, whose salary is $1,500 a week, and his assistant, Eddie Beloin, who makes $560 less. Although the gags are theirs. Benny has a lot to do with shaping up the pro gram. Each Monday he gets together with his writers either in the bedroom of his 15-room French-Colonial mansion in Beverly Hills or in his Paramount dressing room to talk over his coming show. With Benny's secretary Harry Baldwin furiously taking notes, the show is roughed out on Monday, worked...
...boastful but timorous character, who is a butt for everybody's gibes. He is badgered by Tenor Dennis Day, by Orchestra Leader Phil Harris, by Announcer Don Wilson, by Miss Livingstone-and by his valet Rochester. The Bennys have been married since 1927, have a six-year-old adopted daughter named Joan Naomi. Benny calls his wife "Doll"; she calls him "Dollface...
Died. Baron Bruno Schroder, 73, for 30 years senior partner in the potent, old (1804) London banking house of J. Henry Schroder & Co., in which he represented the third generation: at Englefield Green, Surrey, England...