Show Oratorical Flight sIf s- s If U Secretary of the Navy John Sullivan had possessed wings he probably would have flapped them in his enthusiasm when he went before the house armed services committee to urge congress congress congress con con- gress to let the navy speed development development de de- of a ton super super super sup sup- er aircraft carrier costing million mil mil- lion dollars BALL For Breakfast Some of f the more sentimental hands around the American Broadcasting Broadcasting Broadcasting Broad Broad- casting company's Chicago studios like to think of Don McNeill as a a beautiful and vibrant symbol of the therise therise rise and snowballing success of ABC itself At least they both were young together and both had to fight their way up through a welter of opposable c i r c u urn urn- instances in m- stances to find adjoining adjoining adjoining ad ad- joining p places I ace s inthe in inthe the sun As to toastmaster of the uninhibited u n i n h i bite d i z s 's Breakfast Club program program program pro pro- gram McNeill will celebrate his McNeill l ann anniversary i v e r sa ry on June 23 with the same kind of capers he has been executing five days a week between 8 and 9 a. a m m. m since 1933 Despite the subterranean regard which this sophisticated generation purports to hold for the more direct direct direct di di- and obvious obviouS' types of humor McNeill has found that being a pays off He works without without without with with- out a script and his gags are strictly strict strict- ly the off He once invited a herpetologist a student of reptiles and amphibians amphibians amphibians ians who visited the program to Come into the parking lot after the broadcast and Ill I'll show you vou a rare specimen A wind windshield hield viper And when a New Jersey woman told him that her husband is a butcher and she is a he commented What an ideal ar ar- He fattens them up and you pull them in McNeill parlays this kind of extemporaneous extemporaneous ex ex- patter with a feeling of genuine camaraderie for the plain people who are guests on his show to produce a program that has h had a nationwide cult of earl early morning listen listeners era begging for more for 15 consecutive years |