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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...
...soprano-less Singapiel features an original half-hour musical score composed by James Lawlor, '44, played by a small studio orchestra, which is integrated with the spoken lines to produce more effect of operatia than of soap opera with incidental music...
Claiming that Joe Smith's marathon record was "nothing compared with mine," Kieve said yesterday that he is planning to work up a half-hour program in 20 minutes "just to see what it will sound like...
Over 1000 Sophomores and Juniors reported to the calisthenics and marching classes during Monday morning and afternoon, Bingham reported. The first half of the scheduled hour was devoted to a military drilling, supervised by members of advanced R.O.T.C. courses. Following the marching, the limbered students spent another half-hour shadow-boxing, in preparation for next week's boxing sessions...
...liveliest new shows on the air, which has been running for a month, is unavailable to most U.S. radio listeners. Studded with top-flight talent, free from commercials, bathos, exhortations to "keep 'em flying," etc., it is a cheerful half-hour of unadulterated entertainment. Name of the show is Command Performance. Sponsor: Uncle...