Golden Age of Radio

Clifton Fadiman __became m.r. of Information Please in 1927, while in the midst of his active career as editor, book reviewer and critic. He still crack, his verbal whip over the expert, on this program on Wednesday nights at 10:30 EST on the Columbia network, but says that If ever a question of cheese comes up he will switch to the receiving end; fine cheeses and wines are a hobby of his and he might “stump the experts”.

Sunday, February 22, 1942       THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL—SCREEN and RADIO                   11 Now Here’s Inside of ‘Info’ By Franklin P. Adams ON A sunny afternoon in April, 1938, a solitary bus rider might have been seen wending his way northward. Our hero—for it was indeed i — debussed at 57th st. and proceeded to the office of Mr. John Moses, a radio agent. For about six months, off and on, in the order named, I had been writing pieces and making auditions for the Columbia Broadcasting System with conspicuous un-success. And one day my none too altruistic wife, having heard that Miss Dorothy Thompson had an agent who had got her engagements which it was reputed brought her income into the six figure or nonhay bracket, said, “I wish you’d meet this wonderful agent.” A domestic pacifist, I am wax in the hands of the Little Woman’s wish. So I went to Miss Thompson’s for luncheon to meet the fabulou...