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...Freedman was writing radio scripts for Fanny, and she kept trying to talk him into doing a "Babykins." Finally sold, he wrote the first Baby Snooks script so named. In other words, Snooks is strictly a Fanny Brice creation, says she, and the Library of Congress can go climb a tree...
...burlesque on one of the child stars of the period. Fanny kept this character in mind for 15 years. About 1930 she suggested it to Moss Hart, who wrote a skit for Sweet & Low about an infant known simply as "Babykins." This was, in effect, the first Snooks script. Billy Rose may well have helped Hart, says Fanny...
...program for New Yorkers, CBS Views the Press (WCBS, Sat. 6:15-6:30 p.m. E.D.T.), is aired in the well-known, orange-crush tones of Newscaster Don Hollenbeck. Hollenbeck also writes the script with the aid of the CBS news staff and his own 20 years of newspaper, wire-service and radio reporting experience...
With the first sentence of his first script, Hollenbeck started ragging the rags, especially the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram, the arch-conservative Sun and Hearst's Journal-American for "the great ink-letting which resulted from the disclosure that a number of New York City families on relief had been housed in hotels...
...football fever swept Cambridge early and stayed late right up to that final, windy afternoon in November when 57,000 fans jammed into the Stadium to watch a once-beaten Crimson eleven smash across two quick, first-period touchdowns and then knuckle under to superior Eli power, as the script had specified. There was always next year, of course, and with seven of the Varsity regulars returning, it was fairly easy to start looking ahead...