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...years he has run radio's top top-o'-the-morning program, sleepily announcing the time, playing drowsy records, yawning through newscasts and here & there decorating the day's first commercials with slyly adverse comments on their sponsors. All this is unrehearsed blarney. His secretary Margaret ("Mug") Richardson, hands him a slew of advertising copy and news oddments (item: "The United States Government has bought 1,000 dead horses"), and "Red" Godfrey starts spieling...
After a stylish dinner at Sylvia's place, lady and mug find themselves alone on the terrace...
Tough guy inflation has had his grizzled mug transformed behind that oh, so gentle screen, the sieve-like measures which have taken the place of O.P.A. Even when the laws now on the books take full effect on August 20, their effectiveness will be measured not by their phraseology, not even by their three-man administration, but only by the willingness of the buying public to back up a bill that was designed for its protection. With or without government price control, the fuse on inflation is sputtering behind the customer's back, ready to lead up to a boom...
Died. Captain Norman Mickey ("Bus") Miller, 38, the Navy's legendary one-man aerial task force, most decorated Navy flyer of World War II; of tuberculosis; in Corona, Calif. A hard-bitten combat pilot, he took his battle-scarred Liberator bomber, Thunder Mug, into Truk time & again at mast top level, sank or damaged more than 60 Jap vessels...
...still-life published by the Evening Globe yesterday purported to show the "real" Ibis, posed with what the Lampsters called "the Crimson's prize duck" and a mysterious beer mug. But a brief investigation revealed the two birds to be outsiders put over on the gullible Globe...