Radio: Backnagle's Stoop

Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle long ago concluded that "people have more fun than anybody." Last week the colonel was having more fun than most, dishing out his own peculiar brand of nonsense on Vaughn Monroe's glittery variety show (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS).

Like Jolson, Chevalier and other old-timers who have lately bounced back into public favor, portly (195 Ibs.) Colonel Stoopnagle, 50, isn't quite sure how it happened. "It's funny," he says; "they just started laughing again. And this time they laugh right out loud—in the studio. Kinda scared me at first. I remember...

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