Browning chief., 1941-11-21
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teswortA cash n in . big way.
Parks johnson II the son Of q
Methodist minister. He had been q
captain In the World war. . news
paper reporter. . cotton broker, and
n 1881 was running 4 one-man ad-
vertising agency In Houston. Texas.
4 client wanted . radio idea. Mr..
johnson quixzed himself at length
and got the right answer.
He set up q microphons In the
Iebhy Of . Houston theatsr and b.
gan his quiz. At first hs had 10
hand out one dollar bills to lure par
ticipants, but the "mike-fright' sooa
passed and vox Pop quickly b.
came q successful program.
Mr.. BatterWsrth, fsrmer Pho
nsgrapA salesman, radis singer
and announcer, came in later.
Sooa after they were Ostab-
hshed in New York their pre-
gram was on . big network. In
1SAo, they carried their miers-
phone more than 5e,eee miles
around the country, and to date,
have asked about 3o0, 80 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, reporter
On the New York Daily Mail, sus-
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
err Under this and other titles it
stil 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 4 lifelong study Of
diet, nutrition and mass condition
Eminent Athletes dering why
Toushen Us;Why? physica l
Specialists Ask training training Tor ?r
being organized by athletes. instead
sf 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, n examples in which emf
nence in athletics is substituted for
precise knowledge of how to "tough-
en-up" America.
The discussion had to Dc with
kAOAAy VU4 C0b RkVSCIkVSAO0
a = courage diet" for the ma
ten, In which he says he has
listed ealory and vitamin eem-
binations which win enable n
to HEX 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 tan and athletic "Hand-
some Jack" Kelly, as he Is
called, quit the Philadelphia
Dsblic scheols at the age a 1s
anA got . job IN \ brickyard.
He was IN ambulance driver
u The World war, came back
with \ capital 4 ~ and opened
liz ewn brickyard. Twelve
years later, at tie age Of 81, he
VAS tie Olympic single seals
sAanDiea, winning for America
ut Amsterdam. In 1see. hs r.
tired from rowing n the Ude-
featsd chanpiea oarsman Of
the world. At tie age Il g,
~ stin rows I've miles every
Heeniag.
In September, 1910, President
Roosevelt saw m article ''hand.
susps Jack" bad written for . phys