Ashiepattle said it was something like a whistle, and it was really no bid at all for it, but for her sake he wouldn't mind selling it to her, if she would give him three hundred dollars and a smacking kiss for each dollar in the bargain.

At first he was very angry, but his friends managed to cool him off.

That has really soared over the past a hundred years or so.

Within six months, Goodie was back in radio, earning just about the top dollar for a writer ($3,000 weekly) as Danny Kaye's chief scripter.