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Show JJvl OnoL Ovsa. Radio Hack's Strike By H. I. PHILLIPS Z. Cheevers Winch, radio w. iter, walked up and down in front of his cabinet radio. "Why all the pacing?" asked the wife. "I am a pacer by instinct; all writers are," said Mr. Winch. "But A-hy up and down in front of the radio set?" "I am picketing," replied the author. au-thor. "Oh, yes, 1 forgot about the strike," said the wife, "but it's so futile. You can't 'picket radio as a whole. You don't write all the programs." pro-grams." "There you go belittling me!" exclaimed ex-claimed Winch. He now grabbed a banner reading: "Radio Is Unfair to Winch," and resumed his walking. Mrs. Winch made a move to twist a dial. "Stop!" commanded Winch, booing boo-ing fiercely and adding "Scab!" "All I want to get is the weather," said the wife. "Would you cross a picket line to get the weather, foul or fair?" asked Winch sternly. "Certainly. Do you write the weather forecasts, too?" "1 am dickering with a company' to make them louder and funnier," insisted Winch. Mrs. Winch turned the dial and got Into a commercial for a soap powder. "I was "afraid of that," she said. "What?" asked Winch. "The Jingle writers have not gone out in sympathy." Mr. Winch resumed his pacing. Mrs. Winch, ever a good counsel, argued with him. "You know this is making you miserable," she said. "No radio writer is truly happy unless un-less he is listening to his material on the air. You can't hold out." "This is a finish fight," said Winch, "We can't. lose. Those radio people will try new writers and get fresh material. The public will not stand for it. They are too accustomed accus-tomed to the old gags, the true and tried situations, the old-time plots." "You can't tell," said the wife. "If the public heard any really new and original material mate-rial on the air, they might go for it. They might even demand it." Z. Cheevers Winch reached for his hat and coat. He started for the "office at once. There was no use taking foolish chances. President Truman grew chin whiskers at Key West, but denied they constituted a Van Dyke. The growth was officially, ruled a five o'clock shadow with a broader Democratic base. The White House is closing a great portion of it for repairs. The celebrations celebra-tions took the roof off it. A Russian editorial writer says that those who voted for Henry Wallace (remember?) were the very flower of the American nation. na-tion. The other millions, we assume, constituted a sort of national weed show. A Washington inquiry has found that the public has been taken to the cleaners through a widespread racket in which car dealers made them come across with 450 millions for extras and lose 200 million through inadequate inade-quate allowances on old cars. To whom is that news? There was a big drop in attendance attend-ance and receipts at the recent New York horse show. It seems that people are afraid to consider ordering order-ing a new horse for fear they may have to wait two years. Elmer Twitchell says Harry Truman Tru-man now has achieved so much prominence that he is eligible to indorse in-dorse a beer. |