The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-04
WAVELETS
By ED LEAMY

umn-under a feminine pseudonym on Love, Marriage and Divorce" An me! Them was the happy, care-
 Now. while I have to admit that most true story programs leave me cold, I've always been a sucker for true detective stories even though I see blazing through them all the authors tricks and ways to drama tfze facts which often in themselves are far from being dramatic. There was a gal down on the New York Mirror who used to turn out some of these, and alarmed finished yarns they were as they popped from her typewriter. Of such breed-though she has no hand in them-are the Gang Busters programs-heard Fri- day night over WATR at 9.
 Tonight. on that program will be concluded The Case Of Kinnie Wagner" a dramatization of the life and crimes of the great hill-billy murderer and jail breaker who sported five notches in his gun belt His escape from Blouritsville jail and subsequent capture prove an exciting plot. Wagner is now serving life term in Mississippi State Penitentiary.
 The other day I told you about the All-American Boys baseball game which will be aired by WATR and the Blue from the Polo Grounds, New York city, next Monday. Cor rected time of the broadcast is 2:30 D. m.
 Harry Wismer. ace sportscaster for the Blue Network, and Red" Barber, famous for his bombastic accounts of the Brooklyn Dodgers games, will divide play-by-play broadcasting duties from the grounds.
 Each will do a share of the pre- game color description, then Wismer will take over the play-by-play for four innings. and Barber will carry the remainder of the game. Tn be- tween innings both will do color and highlights Don't forget the time, 2:3O over WATR.
 Looks like Andre Kostelantez and his orchestra are the shortest dis tance between two points, Although the regular conductor for the Pause That Refreshes" CBS program is in far of Iran entertaining Amer iean troops, his fans back in the States had an opportunity to hear him recently by shortwaye.
 4 letter written by the conductor from Iran told of the intense heat sometimes I52 degrees in which the orchestra has been play- ing. MT. KostelanetZ also praised the fifty O. I. men he has in his Persian Gulf Command Orchestra, Tn the true Kostelanetz fashion, he organized Q string section for the foreign band which does not deyiate from the pattern he uses in the United States.
 "A prophet is without honor in his own country" is an old adage.
 But if you will take the word of Morton Downey, such a contention is a snare and delusion, Mort, who has his own program five aft- ernoons a week on the Blue nets work. recently appeared as guest star on Bill Eterns Sports News reel" over the same network. Bill asked the tenor what he predicted was going to happen in major league baseball. and DoWney's predictions have been so accurate that his fan mall these days contain scores of inquiries as to his opinion who will yin the pennants and World Series"
 While others steal away to the seashore or countryside, Jimmy Durante has been up to his nose in campaign work. No summer relaya- ton for the staunch dark horse of the coming eleetlonl Together with his CBS Friday night booster, Garry Moore, the bulbous nosed balloto- maniac has been pTancing hitber and yon, up and down and here and there, organizing his party (so far he's got three anchoyies), kissing babies lWho slap him baekl and av0iding his landlord.
 A recent stumping tour took him to the farm country where Jimmy had Q magnetic effect on the farm. CTS. There had been no rain for weeks. The asparagus tips Were shrlVellng. The potatoes were going to pot flor pot Yoash, Even the weeds were Wilting The canny can' dldate took over with a solution that Was stupendous in It's simplicity.