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...Canteen's noisy weekends are coolly run by matronly Mrs. Harry Lee Virden, an Episcopal Army chaplain's wife, who assigns classic-minded musicians to practice rooms on the second floor, and jam fans to the third floor. The resultant uproar from the 28 unsoundproofed cubbyholes usually involves the trial flights of several singers, a dozen pianists, a hot accordion, strings and horns, all at once. One soldier motorcycles up from Ft. Belvoir (Va.) for violin lessons from Author Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus...
...life. The story concerns the efforts, of two taxi-dancers (Jane Frazee, Joan Woodbury) and their boss (John Calvert) to get money out of two soldiers (Jimmy Lloyd, Robert Scott). The charm of the picture is in the redolent staging of scenes in the dance hall, at a jam session, a crap game; and in the fact that all these characters perform as unaffectedly as if they had no idea there was a camera around-or even that movie characters must be either utterly good or utterly evil. In its wholly unpretentious way, this is easily the most sympathetic picture...
First & foremost was an all-out row over the size of the Army. Civilian officials were clamoring for release of soldiers to mine coal (see Wartime Living) and help out in the transportation jam (TIME, July 30). Almost everybody in the capital thought the Army was too big - except the Army. Last week, the scrap was brought to a head by Colorado's angular, crinkly-haired Senator Ed Johnson, a constant thorn in the War Department's side...
Although he had fervently urged that 6,000,000 tons of bituminous coal be sent to Europe to avoid "rioting, bloodshed, and the destruction of nearly all semblance of orderly government," Harold Ickes glumly announced that the U.S. would be in a bad jam if not even a pound were sent abroad...
...railroads, the central link in redeploying troops to the Pacific, the passenger jam now promises to be 10% worse than the record jam of 1944. Said Vinson: "The public is expected to refrain from unnecessary travel." That was the picture, as Fred Vinson saw it, until V-J day. In the very week that he made his report, there was talk in & out of Washington of settling down to a "soft war," i.e., fighting a slow war of attrition against the Japs instead of press ing in for the kill. That was not Vinson's view. "Now," said...