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...small coastal barge and towing service which Williams joined only three years ago. It has been so well managed and profitable (net profits last year: $100.000) that the Florida National Bank of Jacksonville lent him $1.5 million to help finance his ferry company. The Mills Industries Inc. (juke boxes, pinball machines, etc.) may put up $1 million in exchange for a stock interest and the amusement, bar and dining concessions on Williams' ferries. Once he has them built and operating, Hustler Williams has more plans. One of them: a chain of super-service stations along the drowsy highways...
...have given almost no publicity to their: 1) annual, rich ($15,250 this year) Portrait of America painting contest; 2) centers for service personnel in New York, Washington, San Francisco; 3) Walter Mack Job Awards for college graduates (one year of vocational training with pay) ; 4) three Junior Clubs (juke boxes, dance floors, soft drinks, etc.) for New York City's restless teenagers; 5) Voice Record Program, through which soldiers can send spoken messages home free of charge...
Courage & Cracks. Like Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (another Yank contributor) Reporter Bernstein presents his G.I.s with affection, understanding, some acid humor, no glamor. In foxholes and juke joints these free-&-easy democrats bristle with the sour, witty, aggressively individualistic, trigger-quick cracks that make the U.S. warrior incomprehensible (and therefore frightening) to his enemies. With a keen ear for idiom and a deft hand with dialogue, Reporter Bernstein has successfully put the G.I. gripe down on paper...
...credit side, "Can't Help Singing" has some good songs which, unfortunately for this movie's box-office, sound better out of context in the juke box. Occasionally, too there is some comic relief by Akim Tamiroff and others that departs from pattern...
...tunes, however, especially More and More, Californ-i-ay, and the title song which is caroled in an early American bathhouse, are solid enough Kern, if a touch too operatic for the winter's juke boxes. And Miss Durbin, whose hair has been dyed a pleasing pink for her first appearance as a Technicoloratura, still sings charmingly and still suggests what she has only once had half-a-chance (in Christmas Holiday) to prove: that she is a big girl now, and could step out of her candy box to become one of the most high-powered sex-actresses...