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...When you talk of the radio of the '20s. '30s and '40s, how can you not mention the great comedians? You quoted Fred Allen, but how can you pass up Jack Benny, Joe Penner, Fibber McGee, Eddie Cantor. Easy Aces, Amos 'n' Andy and, for the real old-timers around. Block and Sully...
...service, no embalming, just a quick transfer of the body to the crematorium. Obviously, the problem for the Christian is to strike a balance in which death can be faced as the mystery it is, with neither false confidence nor excessive grief. Ideally, says the Rev. Dr. Albert J. Penner, president of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ, death should be accepted as "a natural part of existence, part of the bargain we make with life at birth...
...Superintendent Haremski, however, thinks otherwise. "It is not a normal family setting," said he. "There are just too many persons involved in the handling of that child." Heaven only knows, added the superintendent, how many neuroses little David might develop. Other officials seemed to agree. "Imagine." cried Mrs. Babette Penner, director of the Women's Services Division of United Charities, "what anxieties there are in a child who is given a bottle in twelve or more pairs of arms." Added Miss Ethel Verry, director of the Chicago Child Care Society: "It's ridiculous. This baby should have careful...
...police," or "I know who strangled your sweetheart. Send me 50,000 francs and I won't say anything." The letter writer invariably used pink stationery, was promptly nicknamed by the press "the pink raven" (in French, the word "raven" is slang for a poison-penner...
...MATTHEW PENNER...