Radio: Breathing, Just Breathing

Showgirl Jennie Lewis came home from the beauty parlor one evening last summer, looking forward to an evening of doing her nails and listening to the radio. She had scarcely sat down when a producer phoned, asking her to do a straight bit that night on an NBC television show called Broadway Open House. "All I had to do was bring a sexy evening gown, so I got out my royal blue velvet with the white ermine on top and got right over to the studio. There was no script or anything. They said,...

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