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...Elevator operators in Los Angeles' City Hall were told to stop calling out. "War Department!" for the floor on which Divorces are granted, "Flatfoot Alley!" for police headquarters, and "Ball & Chain!" for the city attorney's criminal division...
...that what Congress meant the G.I. Bill of Rights to do? O.W. Price, regional education director of the Veterans Administration, doesn't think so. Said he in Los Angeles last week: "Many veterans choose courses that will be of no vocational benefit. Others continue to enter certain glamor courses where employment opportunities are either poor or do not exist [e.g., flying, television, plastics]. It seems a downright shame to see them frittering away their valuable benefits." The trouble, said Price, lies with state agencies which authorize frivolous courses which the Veterans Administration is bound to approve...
Price's pet peeve: flying schools. In the air-conscious area in & about Los Angeles, the VA has footed a $3,523,385 tuition bill to date-and much of the money, says Price, was squandered. As soon as the initial glamor wore off, 4,144 would-be pilots quit without finishing their training. Radio announcing is another snare: Los Angeles stations employ only 140 regular announcers, and there is a waiting list of 475 already. And yet many ex-G.I.s are enrolled at four announcing schools in Los Angeles alone...
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Died. Mark Hellinger, 44, pioneer Broadway columnist, Hollywood producer (The Killers); of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Convivial, flashy Hellinger lived exactly as gossip-column fans imagine a "Broadwayite" should, married Gladys Glad, a Ziegfeld showgirl, moved to filmland to become one of Hollywood's most enthusiastic practical jokers and its prototype of a "swell...