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SUNDAY RADIO PROGRAMS
Dec. 29. 194G WOW (590 kc 503.
2m > (CST)
6 30 Sunday Serenade
6 55 News
7 00 Revival Hour
S 00 Chapel in the Sky
8 15 Midwest Report
8 15 Chapel Service, Rev. R. R.
’ Brown
9 30 STORY TO ORDER „ ^
9 45 Cheer Up Time
10 00 WOW News Tower
10 15 Gems and Jottings
10 30 Furs on Parade
10 45 Solitaire Time. NEC
11 00 World Fr/’-.t, NBC
li. 30 House of Beauty
11 4 5 Canary Pet Show
12 00 WOW News Tower
12 15 Far, i Magazine of the Air
12 30 Your Univv sity .Breaks
Democratic Committee
32 45 Life Time F-vorltes
1 00 RCA Victor Hour, NBC
1 rm Harvest nf Stars, NBC
2 On •' ;.,U oil Cove Hero, NBC
2 CO Cue Mar/;; Family, NBC
4 3
■5 00 Catholic Hour, NBC
t! 30 Rand- agon NBC
7 00 Edgar N Charley
v qq Manhattan hi err y ’ Go
8 30 American Album of Fami
9 <) Don Am echo* Show, NBC
9 50 Meet Me at Parkey’s, NBC
3 0 00 IVOW News Tower
10 15 Show Time
10 30 Pacific Story. NBC
11 00 WOW News Tower
11 15 Music by Shredinik, NBC
11 30 America United
12 00 Midnight Melodies
12 15 Mary Ann Mercer, NBC
12 30 Symphony of Melody
12 55 News, NBC
KOIL (1290 kc)
7 00 Paul Harvey. News. ABC
7 15 Tom Glazer’s Ballad Box,
‘ 7 30 Coffee Concerts. ABC
7 45 The Chosen People—Dr
Joseph Hoffman Cohn
8 00 Sunday Morning Melodies
8 15 Christian Science Pgm, ET
8 30 The Christians Hour. ET
9 00 Old Fashioned Revival ET
10 00 Church of the Air
10 30 News
10 45 A1 Williams Health Club
11 00 This Week Around the
World. ABC
11 30 Melodies of the Southland
12 00 News
12 15 Your Sports Question Box
With Leo Durocher
12 30 Your University Speaks
12 45 Vagabond Dreamer
I 00 For Your Comfort, ET
1 30 Friendship Hour. ETS
1 45 Portraits of Music, ETS
2 00 Sammy Kaye’s Serenade
2 25 News
2 30 Geislers Canaries
2 45 Sam Pettengill, News ABC
3 00 Are These Our Crildren?
3 50 Green Hornet
4 00 Darts for Dough, ABC
4 30 Counterspy, ABC
5 00 Sunday Eveniny Party,
5 30 Easy Aces. ET
5 45 Flight with Music. ET
6 00 Drew Pearson, ABC
6 15 News
6 30 Thanks for Thanksgiving
7 00 The Paul Whiteman Hour
7 30 The Clock. ABC
8 00 Waller Winchell, ABC
8 35 Louella Parsons, ABC
8 30 Jimmy Fidler, ABC
8 45 The Policewoman, ABC
9 00 Theatre Guild of the Air
10 00 News
10 15 Vera Massey, ABC
10 30 Music You Want. R
II 00 News. ABC
11 05 Ted Weetn’s Oreh., ABC
11 30 Jack Fina’s Orch. ABC
11 55 News, ABC
12 00 Sign Off.
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Night Club Opens
By Floyd Snclson
NEW YORK—The whole town’s
•
aud his Melody room end Lawson
Bowman’s New Bar O’Music that
made night life history with its
initial bow to the Gotham smart
v-ti • ao 161} setj Monday night. It
tnc nouse c-t champions for
Louis came to pay high tribute*to
'ui col!, ague ‘‘Hammering Hank”
cue world’s triple title star of
The way it stands now is both
eta.ups are highly respected cit
izens of New York and their name
are blaz. ned in mutli-colored neon
lights that flicker in the stare of
■ the public in uptown New York;
which stand out as most testim
ony to their admiration, popular
♦ ity and public acclaim.
Incidently, the opening of the
new nightspot was the sequel to
an auspicious event.. a testimon
ial dinner tendered Champion Joe
Louis at the Waldorf Astoria ho
tel, which was the ultimate of
rasiidious aristocratic society; and
served as a happy ending of the
evening. Many of city visitors
came especially for the occasion.
iSuperb entertainment with a
most refined atmosphere and a
highly apprecitave audience mar*
ed the jubilant festivities. Doles
Dickens and his unique quartet
furnished a splendid program of
entertainment starring the co
Iquette vocalist, Ida James, late of
the swanky midtown Blue Angel
f and the Sinatra voice of Tony
Jenkins. Doc Wheeler, a napper
host, introduced scores of celebri
ties and visitors.
Durocher Questioned
About Gambling
Cincinatti.. (CNS). .Leo Durocher
valuable manager of the Brooklyn
Dodgers was questioned by base
ball Commissioner Chandler for
two hours following the appear
fance of a column that reported
that the Lip loaned his apartment
to a friend for a dice game in
which something crooked occured.
No information as to what Chand
ler said, or what he intends to do
was released but it is known that
t the report has caused some con
cern in baseball circles, particu
larly at this time when the foot
ball scandal is rocking the nation.
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NEW YORK—The description of
“d.ad-end kids” has come to mean
gamin gangster toughness to most
of the country, thanks (or other
wise) to the movies. Dut to Manhat
tan’s middle East Side, where '.he
oil;;Inal version got bom, the s.g
nlUsance is out of existence.
The kids who play in the dead
er,da now are anything, tut hood-’
lams. That’s because the street ter
r. .i of the East Fifties today are ■
prim and chaste little parks, set with
neat flagstone walks, and benches
a. J trees, sand-boxes and sv.lrgs— :
where bo-cappCd and starched uni- :
formed nursemaidr and governesses j
a:r and exercise th.e children of the ;
fairly well-to-do, whose si sc i; a -art
r is have chased out the shims
a .i rotting -,cd
v.&ea IIa::\ye ms ■■
— fa J, , *AT# '
with his “Dead-End.”
The i jrearsclhterveningbrought
the la:...scaped East River ' Drive
; i the r. yer-incoree ciass dwell
i ; to replace the old warehouses
r',.: t-, ■■■rents. Today’s “dspd-end
i; . h' are such clean, well clad ar.d
i : nr red moppets as you’d flud in
ti : pi ay grounds cf. say, Kokomo,
I ’■ la hi. hi is as ii
si. ,;ij be, and hi gh time, too.
1946 SPOIiT CALENDAR
PROVIDED THRILLS
By Alvin Moses for ANP
“Before you can say Jack Ro
binson,” really means something
to ‘ baseball fans looking forward
■i the spring training camp nev.»
of 1947.
A nubKy, Darn-cioor shouldered
second-baseman, of the Montreal
Floyals of the International Lea
gue answering to that name, fur
nished the most fabulous story of
the late 1946 baseball season. One
has to go back to the gaslight
‘80’3 when giant George Stovey, a
fine pitcher, was the sole colored
member of the Newark team of
the International league of that
ancient era to appreciate the full
extent of this statement.
Though Bob Feller, fireball pit
cher of the Cleveland team of the
American league was among the
prophets who said Robinson would
not make the grade with Montre
al. the young ex-UCLA four-letter
man in sports proved himself a
star of the first magnitude in his
first season on big time.
Won League Batting Crown
When white newsmen inter
viewed the intelligent former
shortstop of the Kansas City Mon
archs along with Johnny Wright,
Homestead Grays twirling ace, at
the Royal’s training site at San
ford, Fla., March 3, he was mod
e t in the extreme. “I don’t know
if I am good enough to make the
Montreal team,” Robbie replied. to
a direct question, ‘‘All I know is
this is my big chance and I think
I am ready for it mentally as well
as physically.” That statement
was reprinted in daily newspap
ers throughout the country.
The Montreal club thru its own
er, Branch Rickey of Brooklyn
I Dodger fame, had signed three
colored players for the ’46 season;
Robinson, Wright and Roy Part
low, lanky southpaw pitcher who
was signed in June but was op
tioned to the Three Rivers club
of the Canadian American league
as was Johnny Wright.
All Robinson did was to bat a
cool .349 to beat out the top slug
| gers. steal 40 bases, and cause cri
I tics to acclaim him the best 2nd
1 sacker to show in that league in
i l dozen or more years. Yes, the
J modest kid who could lick his
j weight in wildcats while at the
University of California at Los
| Angelas, hit all kinds of pitching
i to the far corners though Rapid
I Bobby Feller had said.. “He’s a
poor hitter.”
Leo Durocher, asked in Novem
j’-'-r, “what chance has Robinson
i _ \:n the Brooklyn Nationals in
j‘47?’’ replied, “I will say here and
j now that Jackie Robinson will be
I at the Dodger’s Havana training
l camp next spring. His record
speaks for itself. Batting .349 his
I first year up, he batted safely
1155 times out of 400 tries; he
I stole 40 bases. In the one game I
saw the guy perform in at Los
I Angeles, he made two plays that
j would have been a credit to Mar
| ty Marion. Don’t let anybody tell
j you that he cannot throw. He
played short the night I saw him
and looked all right on that side
of the infield.”
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Alley News
By Mildred Martin
Even though it was Christmas !
Week, the hustle around the bow- ,
ling lanes were the some as usual j
with every one trying to beat
the ether person there in time to
secure a lane. . j
' It’s the rabbits.” he said. “I’m
"re that’3 the trouble. I bought i
my toyr a couple of rabbits a few j
. :nth : ago. They are supposed to i
t the complete care of the anim- j
' hot sometimes, they forget, |
m ’ I h eve to feed them end clean •
. • the cages. Every time I do j
'hret. a little later I get an attack. ,
7 oh he. I car's breathe. It seems !
a; ir I . ould . suffocate.”
Skin tost" tests proved that he i
was right. lie was allergic to ran.
Vt fur. In his case, it was not j
hard to proscribe a treatment, i
Avoiding the allergy-producing
si'.bstp.r.ee is the first and mo3t ;
< '' ti c treatment. Mr. Johnson
quickly learned to keep away
i * obi 1 raDDits.
However, many allergies arc due
to things that cannot be avoided,
kuch as dust and pollen in the]
r> . 11 those cases wo try to hy
j posensitize the patient. We begin
j with an injection of a very weak
dilution of an extract of the sub
i stance to which the patient is
allergic. We gradually increase
the strength until the patient is
• le si sensitive when exposed to
' the substance .and no longer re.
! acts in an allergic manner. We
are still experimenting with these
so-called allergens to hyposensi
tize the patient. We doctors are
I learning more and more every
'day about the recognition and
treatment of allergies. It is still
1 a comparatively new field in me
I dicine and its horizon seems con.
I stantly broadening.
i This week as usual we have
another ball owner. Mrs. Richard
Dean. I, myself, was very much
surprised to learn Pacheal had
joined the host of bowlers and
want to take this opportunity to
congratulate her on her good
choice of becoming a howler and
I to wish her luck in obtaining a
higher score each and every game.
We do not as yet know the name
I of her ball but will let you know
in our next riobt up. Also noon
our new bowlers is Mrs. Sam Jack
son. To her also we want to ex
tend congratulations and wishes
j of success in her bowling career,
i League games for the week
were as follows: Sunday’s game
j between the Junior Hellcats and
the Elks was canceled. Monday
| found the Lefties battling against
the Bewares. The Bewares won 3
straight. Tuesday was the Junior
Hellcats against the Tigers, the
Hellcats taking three; Wednesday
was Christmas Day and the game
was cancelled. Thursday the Lions
won three games from the Elks
I by forfeit and Friday was the
j Bacchanites against the Trojans
I with the Trojans winning two out
, of three.
High scores for the week were
obtained by Fay Jackson and Cor
nelius Arnold. Fay bowled 166 and
received a dollar bill; Arnold 247
and received the same.
So friends as 1946 goes out and
♦47 comes in et’s determine to
make the new year the biggest
I bowling year ever held in this
| city among our group. Let's de
! termine to make our bowling so
perfect and smooth that we will
be able to compete with anyone
the the other groups wants to put
up against us. That can only be
obtained by practice and more
practice and as we strive for this
goal let us remembers the motto:
“See no evil; hear no evil; and
speag no evil” as we bowl our
cares away.
Roscoe Knight, Mgr.
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TROPHY (MOST PRIZED INDIVIDUAL HOCKEY AWARD) FOR HIS STELLAR I
PERFORMING IN THE NETS DURING “TOE 1939-40 SEASON /
INKSPOTS WIN BIGGEST AWARDS OF 1946
;BILLY KENNY RECEIVES PLAQUES
ON STAGE HE WAS DISCOVERED
Independent Press Service Photo
“Cash Box,” the weekly confidential publication representing America’s entire juke
box industry, presented a double-barreled award to the world-famous Inkspots for
having been polled the outstanding quartet of the year, and for having recorded the
biggest money-making disc of 1946, “The Gypsy.” The awards couldn’t have been pre
sented to the Inkspots in any more appropriate setting than the stage of the Apollo
Theatre, for nine years ago, Billy Kenny, the Inkspots’ tall tenor, was discovered, fresh
out of Howard University, making his first stab at show business by singing in the
Apollo amateur contest.
Today, the Inkspots are managed by Harry Lenetska and Ben Bart of Universal
Attractions, and are the highest paid quartet in the world. Tenor Billy Kenny accepted for
tbs Snots awards from Ralph Emmet of “Cash Box”. Magazine.
LEE RICHARDSON MOST POPULAR VOCALIST OF 1945
RECEIVES SCROLL AS N. Y. PRESS ATTEND IN BODY
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Benue Goldberg (E'ljuirc) Photograph
/IORK, (IPS.):-—Harlem's Apollo Theatre on last Saturday midnite was the scene of “big doings”
as Lee Richardson, brilliant romantic baritone singer with Luis Russell’s Orchestra, was named the “Most '
I opular Vocalist of 1946” and received a Scroll (pictured above).
The honor bestowed upon the newcomer (as stated by Ted Yates, IPS. Edilor-in-Chief as he presented
e scroll) because of the ever-increasing demand for his voice cut Apollo Records and the popularity i
e as brought and is still bringing to Luis Russell's Orchestra—a tfuly great musical aggregation—
as y leaps and bounds become the biggest name in the Negro entertainment field,” is the sepia counter*
part of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and Jean Sablon.
Pre®s mede the trek to the Apollo stage to congratulate Richardson. Dan Burley, managing
p.' f". Ludlow Werner, editor N. Y. Age; Lou Swarz, syndicated columnist; Jack Walker,
cop e s oiee; 'me?! t. Johnson, of the Associated Negro Press; and J. Wayne Burrell of Rhythm Maga
zine were in att-nrf™,-. as were, other notables for the Fourth Estate.
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THE COLUMN THAT’S HARLEM ... ^ ’
All ot the new bars that are re opening after getting a new
(false) face have neglected to set aside a special corner for their
regular customers—the suckers who get on a bender in the joint
every night . . . These poor guys who get broke now and then
sutler terribly when they can't dig up the change tor a drink or
two. It's like a drug-habit with the dopes. So why not a "bender
sender" in the tar corner ot your favorite bar? That room which
Dick Wheaton labels La Continental (Ralph Cooper thought that
one up, bless him!) that's an ideal location for the Tt.S. boys to
gather ... It would hardly affect the general business or the
spot—it s so comfy, too. 1 can see the bovs now lulling all over
the place with the pink lights n' pink elephants "taking over.”
If your gal tries tc pull that one about your being "out of-date”
that you need to spruce up, use some Murray’s Hair Slick, get your
dentist to pull out all of your teeth and get yourself a hoe set *of
talse ones with that sharp gold one in the middle, or it she should
tell you to stop wearing those soft tone striped shirts and get a
dozen of those pure , white roll-collared shirts from Mink’s, and
if vour shoes somehow tail to keep that shine—hop over to Rival
Shoes. -
Brother, don’t look now, but your pants are baggy, fNo
wonder, the little woman's raring-mad!) Get over to Lew’s
Pants Shop (211 West 125th Street) m-a-Lurry and get pegged
‘ti draped back. Lew’s will make your gal stop singin’
“My Man Is An Out Of Date Papa.”
Lee Richardson, the vocalist with Luis Russell’s band, was
selected the Most Popular Vocalist of 1946 in a poll of 154 Negro
newspapers from coast to coast. He was presented with a scroll
on the stage ot Harlem’s Apollo Theatre recently . . . These croon
ers are sure lucky. Richardson has been receiving very expensive
gifts from women fans who are showing signs of outdoing their
bobby-sox counterparts ... At one of the recent appearances of
Luis Russell's Orchestra Richardson actually had to be smuggled
into the theatre. Isn't that carrying it just too tar??? Richardson
just can't be that good, gals. I’m getting a bit jeaious of you
lovely dolls cutting up such capers . , . Please don't take your
love from me. ,,_ J.^j
JONES WILLOUGHBY SENSATIONAL SINGING "FIND"
Signs Artist-Management Contract with George MacLean
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NEW YORK: (IPS.)—Jones Willoughby, sensational new sing
ing • Hull" who hails Iron) St. Louis, Missouri, is shown (above)
signing artist-managnient contract with George MacLean ol the
singing duo Johnny and George.
MacLean, like Willoughby, is a great baritone himself (he
once starred in Lew Leslies “Blackbirds") is leaving no stone
unturned in putting his charge in the spotlight.
Willoughby is a concert artist who possesses a brilliant voice,
is young, good looking and talented. N. Y. critics predict a
bright future tor him. At this early date a tour is being
arranged tor the Spring of 1947 when it is expected that the
star will make a tour ol Negro schools and colleges.
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Achievement of Negro In Army And Navy Filmed And Booked for Early Showing
An inter-racial road show built
around to documentary films
which record the achievements of
the Negro in the Army and the
Navy in World War II, and sup
ported by famous names of stage,
screen and radio, will open in the
East early this year and travel
key cities across the country un
der the direction of the Wallace
Thorsen Organization in coopera
tion with the National Urban Lea"
gue. it is announced jointly today
by Wallace Thorsen and Guichcard
Parris, director of promotion and
publicity of the League.
Although the two movies will
set the theme for the evening’s en.
tertainment in each community,
they will be only the central part
of a program which in each case
will include stars of Broadway and
Hollywood, local war heroes and
local leading citizens.
The National Urban League is
a 36 year old inter-racial service
organization geared for social ac
tion through social work. It has
affiliates in 56 cities and 29 states
and the District of Columbia.
“The plan for this road show
series has beben worked out with
the League in cooperation with the
Wallace Thorsen Organization,”
says Mr. Parris, “and will serve
two worthwhile purposes. It will
make possible first, a series of tri
butes to the Negro’s war countri
ution—achievements thus far un
derstood chiefly by the Negro
community. It is second, a con
; sciou3 attempt on the part of
leading citizens to make the com
munity-a.t-large aware of the
roader opportunities yet to be
granted the Negro if we are ever
to realize the goals for which they,
along with their white brothers, so
recently gave their lives.
"As one sees alert Negro
youths studying the delicate pre
cision mechanisms used aboard
ship in the Navy film, learning to
work out complicated technical
problems on the field of battle as
recorded in the Army film, one
cannot help wondering to what use
all this knowledge and skill has
been put now that the war is over.
Not every veteran has a peace
time job attuned to his war
broadened education, but an in
finitesmal numebr of Negro vet
erans have even had a chance to
compete for jobs in line with their
war-won skills.”
Local sponsorship will include
representatives of the leading in
tercultural and social agencies in
each community. Admission to the
show will be charged and
amounts realized over expenses
will be used to further the work
of the National Urban League,
both locally and nationally.
The two films which form the
core of the show are: "Call to
Duty,” a documentary of Negro
Army exploints in the last war,
narrated by Walter Huston; and
“The Highest Tradition,” which
traces Negro Navy training and
the heroes it produced, told bv
Frederic March. *
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