The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-08

The Laziest Man in the World"
 when "CavaIcade of America"
 dramatixes highIights of Frank
 lin's life, over NEG Monday, Nov.
 13, at 8 D. m. c. ". t. The amaz-
 ing versatility that brought this
 self-styled ''lazy man" world ac-
 claim i'm four distinct fields pro-
 vides the theme of the drama! record them and ship them over by plane. So we drove up into the hills to a tiny hut on Skeleton Hill and recorded the shows after the radio station shut down at midnight.
 '"Then the records were broken In transit. didn't learn this until Saturday night, just as I was about to climb into plane for London.
 'Imagine how felt = all that l had come up for seemed to be lost. I decided to make one more try and arranged to get car about 200 a. m. to drive me thirty five miles across barren, snow-covered lava fields to the radio station.
 T routed the opgvtaor out of bed, but he had come in and from a beer binge just few hours before, and he wasn't any too quick about getting things set up. Finally he did, however, and we made the three records all over again. Then drove back the thirty-five miles to get a plane out. But my bad luck held. The planes that I might have gone on had all left during my absence. And was stuck.
 '.The next day snow, sleet, and rain weathered everything in. and no ships came, so none could go out. There sat for two whole days at that field, waiting for the roar of motors and the hope of getting out. There were about a dozen others there, sweating out ships bound in the other direction; alto- getaer, we were a miserable, cranky bunch. Finally, I was awakened about midnight one night = briefed on all the things that might hap pen, and assured that if we were forced down, we were not to worry = they would look for us. And then we were of.
 Back in London, I got ready to relay the recordings to America = and we found that the turntables on Skeleton Hill had been running too fast, and the voice sounded terrible. But Captain Perry, former Bronxvillian in charge of re- cordings here for the Army. per- suaded the electrician at the British Ministry of Information to slow the cycles of current down so that the machine would run slower and com pensate for the difference. This was done, and it worked.
 But that was not all. It seems that all the clocks at the British Ministry of Information building one of the largest in London, run on the regular sixty-cycle current And when the electrician slowed down the current for our records all the clocks went haywire, and the British Empire all but exploded. We had quite a timei"
 Whats the hardest part of put. tingting a quiz show on the air?
 Digging up the questions" says Edith Oliver, who goes researching for 35 to 40 questions used each Sunday night on the CBS "Take It Or Leave It" series.
 That may be hard" agrees Phi Baker, the quizmaster, "but what's really tough is digging up the an- Swers,"
 Having thereby answered the $1 question, Baker went on to answer some of the stumpers sent him by listeners.
 T am thinking about moving to New York" wrote one man, land I want to know about the apart ment situation. How many rooms do you have? And do you have a dumbwaiter?"
 These days" replied Phil where can you find smart waiter?
 The $4 question came from a horse player, who asked, T know all about Lady Godiva's famous ride, but what I want to know is how she finished"
 Baker provided the answer: "She 0owed."
 ''What has happened to the bar room quartets of old, who used to harmonize sad songs and weep into their Scotch?" was listeners con- tribution as the $8 question. Why should they cry into their Scotch?" demanded Baker. There's too much water in 1t alreadyP'
 Some body broke into my house the other night" started another letter which posed a $16 question. "He stole all the pretty girl pictures out of my Esquire. Can I have him | arrested, and if so, on what 1 charger"
 Baker had the answer, as usual: |