Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uncle Dave Macon, age 70, has gold uppers, alfalfa on his chin, sometimes sports pink gates-ajar collars. He has a ready rube wit. an endless repertory of high jinks, and plays three five-stringed banjos at once. Uncle Dave sets the tone & tune of Grand Ol' Opry, a radio program many plain folk in the South vastly prefer to Charlie McCarthy or Jack Benny...
...coax patrons away from the magic call and into theatres. Information Please, opposite Pot o' Gold, in self-defense instituted a giveaway on its own high intellectual plane-sets of Encyclopaedia Britannica. On CBS, Competitor Walter O'Keefe, with nothing to give listeners but wit, dwindled off the air middle of last month...
...uninhibited wit, sloppy clothes and nocturnal habits have made him café society's own Dr. Johnson. A fabulous night owl, he prowls from 52nd Street's 21 to 57th Street's musical hangouts followed by an army of press agents, newsmen, vaudevillians and cinemactors, puts on high-powered conversational exhibitions with his good friend Playwright Sam Behrman, drops pearls of grit-edged humor for all who will listen...