As Senator Claghorn on the Fred Allen show (TIME, Dec. 31), Kenny Delmar has been something more than sensational. Last week, after eight months burlesquing Southern statesmanship, Senator Claghorn was far and away the best comic character of the 1945-46 season.
In recent weeks he has traveled to Texas and Georgia for special "Claghorn Days." He has attended conventions, not as Delmar, but as Claghorn. Book publishers hounded him to write an autobiography of the senator. Hollywood would begin production in July of a movie titled after the senator's best-loved and nationally overworked line:...
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