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part consisted of such stirring lines as ‘I’ll hold your horse, Tom.’ ” A fairly successful hometown en¬ tertainer at 22, Gobel married his high school sweetheart, Alice Hu- mecki, and shortly thereafter took off for the Army Air Force, in which he served as a flying instructor. When he came out, in 1945, someone offered him $275 a month to be a charter pilot. After pondering, he went to see Chicago talent agent Dave O’Malley. That large, amiable man took to Gobel instantly. “This,” he said to himself, “is a talented, untemperamental lit¬ tle gold mine.” O’Malley promptly shucked all his other interests and disappeared into the night as George Gobel’s «gent-manager. Like a man pampering a new car, O’Malley kept his young comic pretty much under wraps. “The tempo of the times,” he says today, “didn’t give a man much choice. You either went big or you went bust. But George has been lucky. He’s been able to develop his style and his self-confidence at a nice, leisurely pace. We think now he’s ready.” Which is one of the most un¬ der-understatements of the year. Actually, Gobel had been ready for quite a spell, playing some of the biggest rooms in the country. NBC spotted him and promptly put him under contract, paying him just to stay off TV while the network’s brain- trusters dreamed up a format. Earlier, he had been virtually a regular on Garry Moore’s CBS show, guesting on it no less than 16 times. “They did everything,” Gobel muses, “but offer me a job. NBC did nothing but offer me a job. So you make a choice.” So there you are. A good part of Gobel’s success can be laid at the door of Harry Winkler. “Harry,” Gobel says, “just happens to write like I talk.” It was Winkler who conjured up some of Gobel’s most successful rou¬ tines, including the episode which introduces Gobel as a put-upon little man who has lost a bowling ball. This is now a minor classic, along with the line about the contrary man who moved four times a week just to befuddle his homing pigeons. Gobel moved to California a year ago, buying a house-with-pool out in the Valley’s Sherman Oaks. His old¬ est child, Gregg, 9, is a natural-born ballplayer, which pleases Chicago Cubs fan Gobel no end. He is now trying to turn the youngster into a lefthanded hitter. “Adds 20 points to a man’s batting average,” he claims. “If I could add 20 points to my rating by telling left-handed jokes, I’d do it. If I knew what a lefthanded joke was.” Gobel himself is a golfer. It adds 20 strokes to his game just thinking about lefthanded jokes. Tr/p/e ACID INDIGESTION : 1 Reduces excess stomach acid- ■ >ty with instant Alkalizing action. Alkci" O Settles and soothes your upset _ ^ stomach. ® 3 Relieves that uncomfortable I WP stuffy, too-full feeling. fL JL MILES LABORATORIES, INC., ELKHART, IND. AT All DRUG STORES 7