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...weekend of sitting in Manhattan nightclubs, Barbara Jo Walker, 21-year-old "Miss America of 1947," finally got back home. Memphis' welcome filled her eyes with tears. There was a big parade, a luncheon with the mayor, a fashion show, a ball at which she danced with her fiancé, Intern John Hummel. Then Miss America went back to her studies at Memphis State College, her choir singing and her Methodist Sunday School class...
With the help of a girl friend named Sigrid Kraft, who also had a fiancé in the U.S., Gitte procured a packing box 29 inches long by 21 inches deep. She bored some air holes in it, equipped it with inside latches, stocked it with sleeping pills, four slices of black bread, a jar of tea and some razor blades (to slash her wrists in case the worst came to the worst). Then Sigrid sent for Private Robert Siedentopf, a friendly G.I. who worked in the same Army dispensary as Gitte...
...Angel. Gitte, Sigrid told Robert, was very anxious to ship a crate full of "fragile personal belongings" to her fiancé in Manhattan. Would Robert be an angel and take it to the airport for her? Carefully Robert set the box on a jeep and pocketed a cablegram written out by Sigrid: "Send $150 immediately and you will see me soon. Gitte." But the cable office would not send it unless Siedentopf signed it with his own name...
Lovers. In the snack bar of Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airport, a German girl sits with her G.I. fiancé. He is a slight, blond boy of perhaps 18; she is a blonde, bulging, overbearing, with a broad, white face, narrow, calculating eyes and a smile like the flat glare of an electric light that turns on & off at the touch of a switch. She leans with both elbows on the table and in a loud and domineering voice orders ice cream from the tired German waitress, while the boy follows her movements with a young...
...professor of psychology, who keeps sounding off on the subject, with unflattering details. Teresa Wright, a star reporter, is assigned to work up some newspaper feature copy ridiculing the professor. She enrolls as a student, hounds him through bachelor's quarters and classrooms, and outsmarts his chilly fiancée, Rose Hobart, at the cat-&-cat game. In some bewilderment, psychologist and girl reporter fall in love. Typical side dish: a bespectacled adolescent, complete with outsized Adam's apple, who falls for Miss Wright. Best thing in the show: Iris Adrian as a stripteaser, uttering shrill little growls...