Radio: Trying Tots

Several million Mutual Network listen ers have for three weeks been regaled with a freak Sunday-night program (10:45-11 E.W.T.) of what is described as "Rocking-Horse Rhythm." Its star is a five-year-old child named Bobby Hookey from The Bronx. He is the youngest single performer ever to be heard coast to coast on his own radio show. He is sponsored on the West Coast by a medicated gum called Chooz.

Bobby's performance has not varied since his debut. In a scratchy, off-pitch voice that occasionally ascends to a screech, he sings such songs as...

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