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And then they'd probably cast Eddie Bracken, with his hair dyed blond, as Terry. "Burrrrrrrrma!!"
And then they'd probably cast Eddie Bracken, with his hair dyed blond, as Terry. "Burrrrrrrrma!!"
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(Well now isn't this an interesting little tidbit about Counselor Rosenthal. He was, you will recall, the mouthpiece for Hymie Caplin, cardsharking racketeer recently convicted, and now we see that he will also be defending Murder For Hire's Happy Maione. Interesting clientele he has, wouldn't you say?)...
...(I don't care all that much for westerns, but I am prepared to make an exception for a western with Jean Arthur in it. And a Point of Order -- no members of the "Aldrich Family" radio cast appear in "Life With Henry." Which isn't fair, but Paramount insists that Ezra Stone is too old, too fat, and too Jewish to fit the visual image of the role.)...
...Fred Fitzsimmons is the first Dodger to log an injury in spring training. Fat Freddie tripped over first base during a running drill and sprained his ankle....
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("Um," says Joe, "t'is can't be right. I mean -- ah -- can -- um -- some woman, I mean, any woman, really, be -- um -- all of 'em at once?" Sally rolls her eyes and takes another helping of mashed potatoes. "Um, I mean," continues Joe, "it's jus' kinna innerestin', I guess, t' t'ink about, maybe....um. Hey, how bout t'em Dodgas?")..
...Hugh Casey is finally in camp in Havana, with no explanation forthcoming of where he has been or what he has been doing over the past couple of days, and it can be reported that the big fellow isn't any bigger than he was in 1940. Hughie, who is a man of some substance, remains at about the same weight as he was when the team broke up for the winter, and is looking forward to getting back into action....
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Show business was, and is still, absolutely brutal to women "past their prime," unless they can latch on somehow as character actressess. The only exception was radio, where you could be sixty years old and if you hadn't wrecked your voice with cigarettes, you could still convincingly play a teenager.....
Premeditated (with deliberate and purposive intent) on Lillum's part, I tell ya.....
...Negotiations to end the radio music war were expected to develop today following a decision by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers to accept a consent decree settling an anti-trust suit against it. The settlement is believed to establish a groundwork under which the radio networks, which have not broadcast any ASCAP music since the start of the new year, will be able to negotiate a satisfactory contract with the Association, which controls most popular music written within the past fifty years. An official for the National Association of Broadcasters would state only that the provisions of the consent decree will need careful review before any further statements can be made. Negotiations between ASCAP and the radio networks broke off last fall, and the last contract for the use of ASCAP music over the broadcast chains expired on December 31st....
...Van Lingle Mungo took the mound for serious today in Havana, and the early indications are that he has a very good chance of regaining the pitching form that once made him one of the National League's most fearsome hurlers. Shoulder surgery at Johns Hopkins last year has allowed the big boy from the cotton country to regain his old overhand pitching motion instead of the sidearm technique he's used since his injury a few years back. The result was a series of really fast fast balls that looked much like those of the Mungo of old, and if Van is well and truly back, this bodes impressively well for his chances of grabbing the fifth spot in Manager Durocher's projected five-man rotation of Wyatt, Higbe, Hamlin, Casey and -- somebody -- for 1941....