Golden Age of Radio

THE MILKWAUKEE JOURNAL—SCREEN and RADIO Sunday, December 30, 1945 The McGees Are Just Folks By Carlton Cheney ON A RECENT trip to New York, Jim Jordan, better known as Fibber McGee, of Fibber and Molly , was standing in the main corridor of the NBC studios when a little crowd of sightseers approached. Led by a uniformed guide, they nore down on Jordan, elbowed him out of the way and continued their hunt for glimpses of stars. That no one paid him the least attention did not surprise Fibber’s other self. Even after some eight years of life in Hollywood, where stars rarely pass unrecognized, Jim and Marion Jordan, though tops among radio teams, can usually walk down a crowded Vine st. without being mobbed by autograph hunters. The fact that they remain relatively inconspicuous once they get away from the microphones does not disturb or displease the Jordans. Plain folk from country and small town, the one the son of a farmer, the other the daughter of a coal miner, they ...