Dr. Quack

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The men who made this radio announcement are certain that Barnum was not wrong. They are Joe Gentile and Ralph Binge (TIME, March 22), also perpetrators of The Early Morning Frolic (Mutual's Detroit-Windsor Station CKLW), one of the most impudent shows on the U.S. air. They were only trying to be funny, but some 100 listeners were in no mood for joking. They wrote in asking for the remedy. There isn't any.

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