Radio: High Jinks in Omaha

Last year Paramount Pictures threw a big costume party in Omaha, Neb. to give its Union Pacific a rousing sendoff. Exuberant citizens had so much fun they decided to have another Golden Spike

BURNS AND ALLEN She would not say Dan on the radio.

celebration. Into the midst of Omaha's high jinks last week stumped Radio Zany Gracie Allen, posing as Presidential candidate on a Surprise Party ticket, to hold a convention.

Down to Union Station to meet her went 6,000 bearded men and gingham-gowned women. Braving the bleak, rain-speckled wind was roly-poly...

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