Pamela, 9, asked her pregnant mother: "Who put the baby under your heart?" Linda, 6, was puzzled because "men have hair on their chests but women don't." Vicky, 5, instead of praising the toothpowder of a new sponsor, Amion, announced: "I don't want that stuff. I want Colgate's." And Sandra, 11, asked her father what "S.O.B." meant.*
These outspoken children are heard by listeners in six states on The Cliff Johnson Family (weekdays, 8:15 a.m.), a 45-minute show broadcast over Chicago's station WGN. The Family's devoted audience, estimated at 600,000, has even eavesdropped, over...