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...better and louder at it. Comedian Wynn got mad, made the wrong remark: "Some of you fellows think you are funnier than I am, so you tell the jokes and I'll do the laughing." He escaped the ultimate bird only by giving the audience what it wanted-Tap Dancer Betty Bruce, brunette Singer Jane Froman, acrobats, eight chorines from Comedian Wynn's Boys and Girls Together. After that, the audience laughed at Comedian Wynn's foolery...
...Professor Johnson conceived the idea that the craters might once have been made by huge artesian springs now dried up. Long ago, when the Atlantic Coastal Plain first rose above sea level, there was as yet no surface drainage system to tap underground waters. Instead, the water bubbled up through the sandy soil. To test his theory, Professor Johnson re-explored the Carolina craters and found startling confirmation: old wave marks and runoff channels which geologists never noticed while they were blinded by a false hypothesis...
...gave listeners a chance to hear some of the superb talent that few advertisers dare to sponsor. From Montreal came the rich voice of Marian Anderson, from Hollywood the mean rhythms of Duke Ellington, from Manhattan one of the jaunty routines of the world's No. i tap dancer, Bill Robinson. Among others who crowded a lively hour were Trumpeter Louis Armstrong, Actor Canada Lee (see p. 76), Violinist Eddie South. Of all the performers only three had sponsored berths in radio: Eddie Anderson, the Rochester of the Jack Benny show, Band Leader John Kirby and Comedian Eddie Greene...
Helene Rains, 16, won the 300-yd. medley (breast stroke, backstroke, crawl) in 4 min., 4.9 sec. Besides swimming, Miss Rains, a Manhattan music student, plays the piano, clarinet, bassoon, oboe, flute and saxophone, studies tap, toe, adagio and acrobatic dancing. In spare moments she paints...
Assuming that no one needed examples of the first danger, Eliot went on to give a detailed illustration of the second. It seems that a bill is now before Congress, which, if passed, will permit the Government to tap telephone wires...