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...never should their ears be reddened with even laundered versions of such bawdy ballads as Dirty Gertie or Mademoiselle from Armentieres. Such, apparently, is the chaste opinion of the U.S. Post Office, which has closed the mails to Give Out!, a book of military ditties compiled with an approving nod from the armed services...
...most of the week, the Varsity backfield includes Swede Anderson of last year's eleven at blocking back; Ray Eder, who starred in last year's spring practice, at wing; Paul Garrity, former Jayvee fullback, at tailback now; and Paul Perkins, Varsity sub in '42, who has the nod over Minnesota Joe Lauterback at the 3 spot...
Radio's eyebrows were raised last week: the boom in sustaining programs, the wallflowers of the industry, kept right on booming. For the 21st time this year a sponsor gave the nod to a sustainer: from now on Let's Pretend, a CBS sustainer for 13 years, will pretend for Cream of Wheat...
...arrival and a departure made airmen in India nod and grin last week. To India, without previous announcement, went able, soldierly Major General George E. Stratemeyer, fresh from his post as Chief of Staff for General H. H. Arnold in Washington. His new job: chief air officer in the India-Burma-China theater (comprising the Tenth and Fourteenth Air Forces...
...Government kept looking the other way, but the black market was still there. Finally, last week, the black market got a cold but official nod. Checking Manhattan poultry sales, the Market News Service (backed by the U.S. Agriculture Department and War Food Administration) reported bluntly: "Market extremely firm at prevailing black market prices...