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Tommy Riggs, comedian. A radio ventriloquist without a dummy, Riggs created the voice of Betty Lou which he used a radio stations WCAE in Pittsburgh an WLW in Cincinnati. He appeared for 47 weeks on Rudy Vallee's NBC progarm in the late 1930s.