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Wednesday, September 3, 1947 25 ABOUT BILL GOODWI — when all America already knows he's certain star-stuff I John Crosby, brilliant radio critic of the New York Herald Tribune,* made his report on Bill Goodwin, August 4,1947, listening to Goodwin's own CBS show: "I should like to venture the prediction that Goodwin...will develop into one of the top comedians in the business. And nozv, having laid my curse 011 him, F11 steal quietly away," But Crosby has just caught up with the rest of the country! For who listens to the radio, or goes to the movies, and doesn't already know that Bill Goodwin is a comedian of highest rank? Haven't you heard him, for years, take the microphone away from Bob Hope, Burns &: Allen, and other top come- dians on the air? (Everyone else has!) Haven't you seen him in "The Jolson Story", "Wake Island", "Spellbound", or any dozen of the twenty-one pic- tures in which he has been featured? (Everyone else has!) Bill Goodwin is one of the great household names in America now: friend and entertainer of millions and millions and millions of Americans. That is what? you get —already delivered — when you buy Bill Goodwin. Plus the .equally well-known fact that Goodwin is "the sales-message that walks like a man"; unquestionably one of the greatest sales-voices in America today. ^oodwin is now available for sponsorship in a program built entirely around his wonderfully-developed comic talent: a vehicle read^to^deliver the "extraordinary profits which top Radio brings its sponsors. *And other papers, north, south and xvest A CBS PACKAGE PROGRAM