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ABSIE's pride & joy were its musical programs, as American as pie à la mode. According to captured Germans, the favorite Allied program heard in Germany was Music for the Wehrmacht, which featured songs by topnotch performers like Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore. Beaming almost a third of its air time to Germany, ABSIE had solid assurance that its efforts were not wasted. The Nazis tried jamming ABSIE broadcasts, answered ABSIE's news comments on their own stations...
...summer slumps were back. Radio's high-priced winter wonders were off-or taking off. Some were headed overseas, like Bob Hope (on his fourth trip) and Jack Benny (on his third). Some, like Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby, were doing hospital turns at home. Others-like Fibber McGee and Molly at their Southern California ranch-were back on the soil. In their places, for the most part, were programs whose budgets were only a third as big, and whose routines were not a third as good...
...National Father's Day Committee, which also chose: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, father of one, as "outstanding father of the war," and made low, respectful bows to Walter Lanier ("Red") Barber, sportscaster, father of one; Fredric March, actor, father of two; Jack Benny, comedian, father of one; and Bing Crosby, father of four...
...Great John L. (United Artists) is chiefly notable as Bing Crosby's first effort as a producer. It dutifully records the Boston Strong Boy (Greg McClure) as he rises to fame and florid magnanimity - through his unhappy marriage with a betighted showgirl (Linda Darnell), his un happy love for a Boston girl (Barbara Britton), his still unhappier fondness for training on Black Velvet (champagne & stout) and the inevitable consequences at the hands of Jim Corbett. After that came his long, pitiful period as an alcoholic has-been and his ultimate salvation - with the Boston lady's warm approval...
...dominated by G.I.s who are coming home the long way - via hospitals. Each week the program is broadcast from a different U.S. military hospital (and is paid for by a different sponsor, who earnestly tries to play down his plugs). Variety entertainment is provided by such glittering stars as Bing Crosby, Ann Sheridan, Bob Hope, Grace Moore. But the high spot is a strictly...