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Any resemblance between gagster Jinn (left) and straight-nnan Bill Is hilarious!
Bill and Jim Stanley, WICH's morning laugh team, are as different as two brothers can be
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_ kLiKE as brothers? For Bill and Jim Stanley, the family resemblance is strictly for laughs — and ad-libbed at that. These two Norwich natives team on the Bill And Jim Show, heard weekday mornings from 6 to 8:40 on Station WICH. Bill's the straight man, Jim's the gag man. Each is a foil for the other on a show of news, weather, music, ad-lib chatter, impromptu features and take-offs on sponsors and local big-wigs. They've a cast of thousands of imaginary guest characters. Most notable is "Aunt Clara," the sweet old gal who pedaled a bicycle around town in gym sneakers. . . . Bill is twenty-six and, as Jim, twenty -two, says, "He gets the ulcers while I get the laughs." Bill claims the ulcer is healed, but Jim insists that Bill simply retouched the X-ray negative. Bill's the family man, with a wife. Peg, and a one-year-old son. Bill, Jr. He leads a quiet home life, the only battle being a perennial one to grow a lawn around his five-room house on Newton Street. He has a reputation as one of the best photographers in the area and has done considerable free-lance work for local and New York papers. Off the air and out of the darkroom, Bill may be tracking down a prospective buyer of radio time. . . . Jim, who has been considered the "laugh man" of his crowd since schooldays, lives with their mother, Myrtle, "our best fan and biggest critic." An eligible but elusive bachelor, Jim centers his off-the-air time on show business. Sundays, he conducts a hi-fi concert at the Lighthouse Inn in New London and at other times he can be found emceeing programs at local night clubs and resorts, attending jazz concerts, and acting as lifeguard at Norwich's Mohegan Park. . . . Bill handles the business end of the show. Jim admits he's not the type and has the figures to prove it. When the brothers Stanley recently closed the doors of their ill-fated photography and greeting-card store, one item in the inventory was ten thousand cardboard picture frames, bought by Jim in one of his more enthusiastic moments as store manager. Jim also admits that the store cleared $156 one year on a gross income of $21,000. . . . More successfully, the Stanleys have been amusing Eastern Connecticut listeners for three years, ever since their discharge from the Marines. With Jim's admitted lack of business acumen and Bill's desire to try anything new, they turned to radio and WICH. Says Bill: "We felt a local-type program by local boys would be good for everyone concerned." Says Jim: "That's not quite it. We needed the money — and nobody else would hire us."
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