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...Army duty officer at the Pentagon routed General Lightnin' Joe Collins out of bed at 5:30 one morning last week to read him the first pink secret dispatch about the Chinese counteroffensive. Collins rubbed his eyes and dialed General Omar Bradley, asleep in House No. 1 at Fort Myer, Va. All that day the Pentagon's brass-level was gloomy with misgivings. Next morning the whole thing exploded when Douglas MacArthur defined "the entirely...
...stood back while 30 hushed and awed ladies tiptoed in. "These are good Nebraska girls," explained Wherry as the ladies giggled. "I wanted them to see this great committee." One by one Chairman Kenneth McKellar, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Admiral Forrest Sherman and Generals Omar Bradley, Hoyt Vandenberg and Lightnin' Joe Collins rose to bow as Wherry introduced them. Then, Wherry led the girls out again, and the committee settled down to talk about the fate of the Western world...
...Army Play by Play (produced by John Golden and the Second Service Command). Last fall Producer John Golden (Lightnin', Claudia) announced a one-act play contest for soldiers. Last June he offered the top five of 114 entries to a special audience that included Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, a ton of Army & Navy brass hats. The audience's enthusiasm aroused the public's envy, and last week Producer Golden offered The Army Play by Play on Broadway for a short...
Chicago's busiest muckraker is the Rev. Elmer Williams (Methodist), 67, husky, hot-tempered publisher of Lightnin' (average circ. 2,500), a lively, often accurate little sheet which for years has lambasted the Chicago Tribune, gangsters, labor racketeers, politicians. But not until last week was Crusader Williams sued for libel. A State's Attorney's investigator and two furriers sued because Lightnin' called them fur racketeers. Acquitted in 20 minutes flat, Gadfly Williams told the Court: "I am not a reformer, I am an informer...
...family is perhaps the backbone of the lighter side of the American theatre; long, long ago all the Stones were in the memorable "Stepping Stones." Much water has flowed under the bridge since then, but now the one and only Fred is back again in the current revival of "Lightnin...