Listening to Sirius Radio Classics this morning, an episode of Our Miss Brooks called "Faculty Cheerleader." In one scene, Osgood Conklin, the pompous principal of Madison High School, is speaking to his daughter Harriet, who has just pooh-poohed the idea of Daddy being a politician. Conklin blusters that he'll have her know that he was an elected politician before he became a school principal.

Great in-joke: Gale Gordon, who played Conklin and who would later become most well-known to television audiences as Lucille Ball's long-suffering boss on both The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, was originally extremely popular in the role of Mayor LaTrivia in the radio comedy Fibber McGee and Molly.* The audience got a kick out of it and so did I.

* The show was properly titled "The Johnson Wax Program, starring Fibber McGee and Molly," but most folks simply referred to it by the aforementioned title.

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