Radio: Air for a Screwball

For the past month, listeners to Manhattan's WHOM have been diverted by the antic notions of Professor Rhinelander Briggs, B.S., billed as the greatest living authority on miscellaneous subjects. He has attacked Communists for introducing the little red hen into the nation's kindergartens, has aired what he claimed were sound effects recorded in the pouch of a kangaroo.

Frequently Professor Briggs interrupts his show to put in a plug for the Slo-Gro Corp. of America, makers of an ointment that retards the growth of hair and so permits users to reduce their barber bills....

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