Word: beanstalk
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This modernized version of Jack and the Beanstalk, told in roguish tones and with many a froggy giggle, has held thousands of moppets glued to the phonograph. It has also kept radio's Hal Peary well stocked in golden eggs. As Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, the befuddled buffoon he portrays for NBC (Sun., 6:30-7 p.m., E.S.T.), he got $40,000 for recording Jack, Puss in Boots and Rumpelstiltskin in a four-record album for Capitol Records. ("I did it just for a lark," said he, "and didn't expect to make more than carfare money...
Jack and the Beanstalk: with Mickey Mouse as Jack, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy as narrators...
...group, the American Veterans of World War II, has begun bidding against the big three veterans' organizations of World War I. The new group, known as AMVETS, is only one of scores of new veterans' organizations that bloomed last summer. But two months ago AMVETS began a beanstalk growth, has since formed a loose confederation with 114 other World War II groups. High-powered AMVETS now claims 125,000 members, has a suite of offices in Washington, D.C. Last week it called on the remaining organizations of World War II veterans to meet in Kansas City next month...
Into the Chicago Sun's newsroom strode little Milburn ("Pete") Akers, managing editor, looking like an unhappy Jeff alongside the 6-ft. beanstalk of a man he had in tow. This, announced Managing Editor Akers to the Sun staff, is our new executive editor...
...National Dehydrators Association believes that their small industry (1941 turnover: $12,000,000) is going to beanstalk like the frozen foods industry, which in 1942 will quick-freeze an estimated $90,000,000 worth of food-180 times its volume only ten years back. Pointing to the 114 dehydrating plants built by the Nazis since 1935 (before then Germany had only six), they suggest that if the U.S. is going to ship food to its troops and allies all over the planet, it had best get busy concentrating the food so that one boat can do the victualing...