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Charley McCarthy is in for trouble. On Sept. 3 on the Chase & Sanborn program (NBC, Sun., 8-8:30 p.m. E.W.T.) Charley will be introduced to the first wooden woman who ever sat on Edgar Bergen's lap-a new not-so-dummy named Effie Klinker. From advance hints last week it appeared that McCarthy would find the rebuttal of Effie Klinker by no means so easy as, for five years, he has that of the gap-toothed, apple-knocking Mortimer Snerd...
...Submarine Flotillas away from Brest, the 2nd and 10th from Lorient, the 6th and 7th from St. Nazaire. But where could he send them? The only other Biscay bases were La Pallice and Bordeaux, each with facilities for only one flotilla, which already crowded the pens. Farther north were Bergen and Trondheim, with berths for a single flotilla apiece. But the Allied navies patrolled the Atlantic looking for U-boats on the escape routes and the Mediterranean was an Allied lake, closed at Gibraltar...
...Edgar Bergen, the power behind Puppet Charlie McCarthy, was decorated by order of Sweden's King Gustav V, with the Order of Vasa, 1st Class, for furthering American-Scandinavian relations. He promptly ordered a miniature medal for his meal-ticket...
...Stockholm last week came word of Nazi jitters in Norway. Four major power projects-at Vemark in the Rjukan Valley, Saude near Stavanger, Tysse east of Bergen and in the Glomfjord-each with nonferrous metal-producing facilities, have been abandoned by Nazi say-so. The reports spoke of four more such projects dropped. Estimated value: 300 to 500 million crowns ($60,000,000 to $100,000,000), furnished by Norwegian banks at the mouths of Nazi Mausers...
...Form the Battalion" will start its career tomorrow morning when the new stripers will be announced. Just between us, let's speculate on Rehurek for Battalion Commander; Hoffman for Sub-Batt Commander, Bryan for Company 3 "Hep-ster," Wanvig to take over for Company 4, with Bergen and Harty for Company 3 Platoon Leaders, and Stallard and Moss for Company...