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George Burns, the most famous straight man in U.S. radio, observed his 40th anniversary in show business this week with a straight man's true imperturbability. As "the brain" and foil of the comedy team of Burns & Allen (CBS, Tues., 9-9:30 p.m E.W.T.), he was thankful that his old vaudeville routines, neatly brought up to modern times, were worth $10,000 a week as a package show to his sponsor (Swan Soap), and he was delighted with the show's 15,000,000-odd listeners...
...front. Against his communications Allied planes hammered steadily all week. But the Chinese columns, commanded by Lieut. General Sun Li-jen (pronounced soon lee-run), a V.M.I, graduate, and hardboiled, aggressive U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner, were venturing into an almost trackless wilderness. To avoid backbreaking ground porterage, to foil enemy infiltrations, they depended solely upon air supply. Tried out by British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate's daring Burma raiders last spring, practiced by Chinese infantry and U.S. aviators back in India, air supply worked well in Burma last week. And it gave great promise for future warfare...
...Iago, José Ferrer was no longer dwarfed by Robeson, but a proper foil. Too mild a villain last year from not wanting to be too melodramatic a one, Ferrer now is supple, mettlesome, lightly Mephistophelean-a virtuoso who lays bare the workings of Iago's fiendish mind, though not the mainsprings of his enigmatic nature...
...Julian) Louis Reynolds, 35, is vice president in charge of the foil division (which accounted for 65% of the company's sales before the war) ; Richard Jr., 32, is treasurer of the Reynolds companies. But the sons making the news now are the babies: 30-year-old William, the family giant (his 5 ft. 8½ in. puts him four inches above the other Reynolds men) , and David, 28 last month. For Billy and Dave run Reynolds' wildly expanding Aircraft Parts Division in Louisville...
...fencing team, which recently elected a pair of cocaptains, held a second balloting recently to pick a single leader for next year's squad. Donald Mishara '46, of Eliot House and Malden, was chosen after having been picked originally as one of the coleaders of the sabre and foil...