Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blind of New Orleans, who use cane for broom-making, will parade this week with signs reading: "We need China. All our cane comes from China...
Hollywood's version of Manhattan's Stage Door Canteen (TIME, April 6) is a radio job called Your Blind Date. Two months old, it graduated last week from a Coast hookup to a half-hour on the national air (Blue, Mon., 9:30 p.m. E.W.T.). Pleasing to Army, Navy and Marines, Your Blind Date not only puts on a weekly show for a service audience (no civilians admitted) but afterward turns Studio B of Hollywood's Radio City into a dance floor, with a free juke box and a detachment of beautiful blondes...
Performers on Your Blind Date include a perky songstress, Connie Haines, a funnyman, "Tizzie Lish," a band, the Melodates, recruited from John Scott Trotter's Orchestra, guest comediennes and starlets from the studios. Music and patter are not all. To one lucky mother each week, Mistress of Ceremonies Scully gives a chance to read her own letter to her own son. Distant sons can hear the program by short wave from San Francisco's KGEI. This part of the show is one big reason the soldiers like...
About 400 servicemen attend each week. While the show is on the air, Miss Scully's "blind dates," assembled from NBC's stenographic staff, from U.S.O., from other sources, form a part of the stage decor. They are told to dress "fluffily, but not elaborately or formally." The dance afterwards lasts until 11 or 11:30, and under the knowing Scully eye no unfortunate incidents have yet occurred; no girls have wept; no fists have flown...
Perkins has always led the way with the theory that such unfortunates as the blind should not be buried in asylums, but should be taught how to have happy and useful lives, and now, with the country at war, this theory is borne out as its graduates fall into their special place in the struggle...