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...Fort Meade private (Frederick Gaither) came on the air with his partner, a Garand rifle named "Stinky," and discussed its make-up and accomplishments with Sportscaster Bill Stern. This was an easygoing, informative skit, especially for anyone unaware that U.S. soldiers now carry armor-piercing rifle ammunition to drill through the belly of enemy tanks...
Gloated the Nazi Hamburger Fremdenblatt: the New York Times has changed its front-page make-up "to warn readers that the boasted freedom of the press has gone even in the country of Roosevelt. . . . The censor's scissors have gone over the copy of even the sacrosanct New York Times." Nazi proof of this fact was discovery of the Times's 45-year-old motto: "All the News That's Fit to Print...
...point. Then he lays it on too thick or too pat. Perhaps his professionalism is to blame. Perhaps the author of Bury The Dead is more naturally a playwright than a storyteller. Tricks of overemphasis, which get by on stage, look as uneasy in print as theatrical make-up does in a living room...
Some day Hollywood is going to make everyone very happy by letting Martha Scott stay young for more than 10 or 15 minutes per film. Here again she manages--with the aid of the make-up department--to begin growing old as soon as the picture begins. She does it well, to be sure, but she's going to wind up having lived more lives than a multitude of cats. March equals her fine performance, and manages to gain gray hair in the process...
...some 6,000,000 newspaper readers this week goes the syndicated Sunday magazine section This Week in a new format. Cut down to Collier's-size, its new make-up eliminates "jumps," or run-overs to back pages. Its editorial ingredients are 52% articles, 48% fiction, as against its onetime mixture of 80% fiction, 20% articles (serials were dropped two years...