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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1941
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
Seen From the U. S. Atlantic Patrol
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
XJEW YORK.—When Parks John-
1 ^ son and Wally Butterworth
brought their pioneer quiz broad
cast to New York city back in 1934,
. - . , , took them
QaizzersEnriched j us t about
In Plumbing the eight weeks
Minde of Demos 0 * diligent
quizzing to
get an answer to the question,
“Where is Singapore?”
The other day the ninth anni
versary of their Vox Pop pro
gram, the first outbreak of the
growing quiz craze, now ramp
ant on all networks, was cele
brated. In an age of deepen
ing uncertainty, people find
great felicity if they happen to
know how many toothpicks
there are in a cord of birchwood
—and sustenance for an ailing
ego. Messrs. Johnson and But
terworth cash in in a big way.
Parks Johnson is the son of a
Methodist minister. He had been a
captain in the World war, a news
paper reporter, a cotton broker, and
in 1932 was running a one-man ad
vertising agency in Houston, Texas.
▲ client wanted a radio idea. Mr.
Johnson quizzed himself at length
and got the right answer.
He set up a microphone in the
lobby of a Houston theater and be
gan his quiz. At first he had to
hand out one-dollar bills to lure par
ticipants, but the “mike-fright” soon
passed and Vox Pop quickly be
came a successful program.
Mr. Butterworth, former pho-
, nograph salesman, radio singer
and announcer, came in later.
Soon after they were estab
lished in New York their pro
gram was on a big network. In
1940, they carried their micro
phone more than 50,000 miles
around the country, and to date,
have asked about 300,000 ques
tions.
Newspapers were ahead of radio,
however, in getting at the question-
and-answer mother lode of interest
in their own field. It was in 1920,
that Miriam Tichenor, a reporter
on the New York Daily Mail, sug
gested to George T. Hughes, the
city editor, the daily questioning of
five or six citizens at random. Mr.
Hughes started the feature and
slugged it “The Inquiring Report
er.” Under this and other titles it
still carries on in many news
papers. This, however, is an opin
ion, rather than an information in
quiry.
A NEW YORK doctor, a friend
of this writer, says physicians
who have made a life-long study of
diet, nutrition and mass condition-
_ . - , , ing are won-
Eminent Athletes dering why
Toughen Us sWhy? physical
Specialists Ask training for
< defense is
being organized by athletes, instead
of specialists in physical fitness.
Without disparagement to any of the
persons mentioned, he cited Gene
Tunney, Alice Marble and John B.
Kelly, the last an undefeated oars
man, as examples in which emi
nence in athletics is substituted for
precise knowledge of how to “tough-
en-up” America.
The discussion had to do with
Mr. Kelly's current prescription
of a “courage diet” for the na- ;
tion, in which he says he has
listed calory and vitamin com
binations which will enable us
to lick our weight in wildcats.
Mr. Kelly, a former bricklayer
and contractor, is chairman of the
Philadelphia Democratic commit
tee, and last August became direc
tor of physical training for national
defense. He was formerly a Re
publican, and is veteran of much
fast and intricate milling in both
parties.
The tall and athletic “Hand
some Jack” Kelly, as he is
called, quit the Philadelphia
public schools at the age of 16
and got a job in a brickyard.
He was an ambulance driver
in the World war, came back
with a capital of $40 and opened
his own brickyard. Twelve
‘ years later, at the age of 31, he
was the Olympic single sculls
champion, winning for America
at Amsterdam. In 1926, he re
tired from rowing as the unde
feated champion oarsman of
the world. At the age of 52,
he still rows five miles every
morning.
In September, 1940, President
Roosevelt saw an article “hand
some Jack” had written for a phys
ical culture magazine and sum
moned him to lead the national
“physical preparedness” endeavor.
He now officially and formally
heads this department and is work
ing up plans for national mass calis
thenics.
He is one of four eminent broth
ers, George, a playwright; Walter,
the famous “Virginia Judge” of the
stage; Patrick H., deceased in 1937,
who was the builder of the Free
Public library in Philadelphia.
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Scores of ships in formation, headed across the Atlantic! What a convoy! In upper right is part of the
wing of the U. S. Atlantic air patrol plane, from which the photo was made, (Inset) A seaplane tender of the
U. S. Atlantic air patrol is shown with a number of patrol planes on her stern deck, and still another being
hoisted aboard for an overhaul. Photo approved by U. S. navy.
Prisoners of War Accept Their Sorry Lot
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
N OT content with having a
very promising film ca
reer, Susan Hayward has
turned actors’ agent. Dining
at a New Orleans hotel, she
was impressed by the young
singer and trumpet player
with Chuck Foster’s band; he
stopped the show at every
performance. So when he was
brought over to meet her she ques
tioned him. Why wasn’t he in
films? Nobody’d asked him to be.
Where did he come from? Los An
geles, but he’d never been able to
get near a film studio there!
So Susan placed him under con
tract, and arranged for his Holly
wood debut at a cafe there. His
name? Ray Robbins, profession
ally; in real life, it’s Foster.
A new romantic duo makes its
debut in RKO’s comedy, “Obliging
Young Lady,” in the persons of Ed
mond O’Brien and Ruth Warrick.
RUTH WARRICK
He recently scored in “A Girl, a
Guy and a Gob” and “Parachute
Battalion.” She made her film bow
as Orson Welles’ first wife in “Citi
zen Kane,” the picture that’s been
a springboard to motion picture con
tracts for so many actors and act
resses.
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Some of the several thousands of soldiers of the Chiang Kai-shek army captured by Japanese forces,
are shown in picture at left carrying food for their breakfast. The baskets are quite large and only one
is filled to the top. Right: Italian prisoners of war in England help build their own winter quarters. Other
prisoners in England are used on farms.
New President in Independent Syria
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Cheikh Taggadine, the new president,of Syria, inspects a guard of
honor of Free French troops outside the town hall at Damascus, Syria.
Syria was granted her independence when Free French General Catrous
formally handed the country over in a broadcast speech from Damascus.
‘Blitz Troops’ in the Making
Old Man River Again
A rescue party in a rowboat trav
els down a city street which is un
der five feet of water. The flood
was caused by the Arkansas river,
which broke out of its banks at Tulsa,
leaving scores of families homeless
and causing great damage.
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The second corps provisional anti-tank battalion, commanded by Maj.
H. R. Johnson, Wadesboro, N. C., was organized as a weapon of opportu
nity to combat hostile mechanized threats at any part of the front where
the enemy might break through. Photo shows battery D returning fire
on advancing “enemy” tanks, supported by machine guns.
Prison Camp
The first prison camp since World
War I is now being completed near
Patchogue, N. Y. It will accommo
date some 700 aliens. The watch
tower is shown above.
Robert Taylor has an exception
ally tough beard, and while he’s be
ing shaved talks about show horses,
like his Arabian stallion; Clark
Gable chats about guns and fish
and venison, under the same condi
tions, and he also has a tough
beard. Spencer Tracy yells wise
cracks at everybody while he’s in
the barber’s chair. Bob Young
makes a few remarks about his rid
ing horses. Jimmy Stewart sits
and says nothing. All this informa
tion from Jim Adamson, major
domo of Metro’s barber shop, who
began snipping locks and news from
movie stars way back in the days
of Inceville—he’s been at it for 2 1 /fe
decades, and has his own Hollywood
Who’s Who.
*
We’re told that Inez Cooper, a
Hollywood new comer, looks so
much like Hedy Lamarr that ex
perts can’t tell them apart. Miss
Cooper has worked in “Unholy Part
ners” and “The Shadow of the Thin
Man”; she’s now appearing in “Mr.
and Mrs. North,” and is slated for
a role in “I Married an Angel.”
None of these pictures have yet
been released, yet she’s already had
a flourishing screen career.
*—
People whose memories go way,
way back will remember Harold
Lockwood, one of the big stars of
his time. His widow died recently,
after having been a member of
Paramount’s make-up department
for nine years. ’ Today’s movie stars
are more foresighted financially
than were those old-timers. For ex
ample—Joel McCrea is listed by the
government not as an actor (though
he’s been making pictures for 11
years) but as a good producer,
thanks to the annual profit of ap
proximately $5,000 which he makes
from his ranch.
Madeline Lee, who’s “Genevieve
Blue” on the “Amos and Andy”
broadcasts, has found herself turn
ing into a hat designer. She en
tered a hat designing class on a
dare, found that she not only liked
it but was good at it; now she makes
all her own hats, and her friends
besiege her to turn out little num
bers for them.
Correction: Last week’s item
about “The Chocolate Soldier” was
partly wrong; Metro’s picture by
that name includes only music from
the operetta so known; the story
is the one you’re familiar with un
der the title of “The Guardsman.”
ODDS AND ENDS—RKO has signed
St. Brendan’s Boys’ choir of 20 boys for
church sequences in "Joan of Baris,” which
will star Michele Morgan, the new t rench
star, and Raul Hcnreid .. Bud Abbott and
Lou Costello will play the leading comedy
roles, and Kathryn Grayson and John Car
r oll will have the romantic singing leads
in the new movie version of "Rio Rita"
. . . Walter Pidgeon returns to his first ca
reer, that of a singer, in "Design for Scan
dal’’ which he has just completed with
the newly wed Rosalind Russell . . . They
sing "A Bicycle Built for Two” . . Clive
Brook’s daughter Faith, makes her film
debut in "Suspicion.”
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