Human minds fuddled by wartime problems have become a new audience for cosy-talking Mrs. Know-it-alls. These ladies are airy irrepressibles who chat on a hundred different subjects, answer questions, take listeners on a heady gossip-go-round of meeting people, going places, doing things.
Highest Crossley-rated Mrs. Know-it-all is a short, voluble bit of human voltage named Bessie Beatty,* a onetime San Francisco newspaper reporter, writer for women's magazines and editor of McCall's. From rough notes, busy Bessie ad libs over Mutual's WOR (11:15-12) on food, books, fashion, war news, people, places. Sometimes she...
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