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...company of battle-seasoned Philippine Scouts slopped up toward the Bataan front, rifles aslant. Against the downpour they held their heads high. They had a reason. Leading them, just out of the hospital and headed for more Japs, was their company commander, Captain Arthur Wermuth of Chicago, the One-Man Army of Bataan (TIME...
...front files grinned at his equipment: a tommy gun slung across his back, two revolvers (he does not trust automatics) snugged by their horsehide lanyards to his long legs, grenades bulging his pockets and haversack. The little Scouts knew this was no showcase equipment. Bataan's One-Man Army, who brags a heap but always makes good, is officially credited by his regimental commander with killing at least 80 Japs singlehanded. Flamboyant Captain Wermuth, who often works alone, claims 116. His men do not question his count...
Then at the IC4A games recently, he took a second to the renowned Rich Moreum of New Hampshire a one-man field events team, bettering his own old hoist by 1-2 inch...
...kids in Walgreen's ate it up. They became not only Actors Cues readers but legmen as well. By last week Actors Cues claimed, a little wildly, that it had got actors 500 jobs. Shull had become a one-man clearinghouse, with scouts hunting him up and producers giving him their casting lists. In addition, Editor Shull had organized playwrighting and acting classes for his flock, wangled hundreds of free theater tickets for them, laid plans to get them an eating-and meeting-place of their own and, above all, an experimental theater. (A benefit dance last week netted...
Whether the Commissioner was within his right remains to be seen for the Gaiety Theatre's lawyers say that Moss was exercising one-man censorship, without any legal claim. Nearly all the bigwigs on Broadway are siding with the burlesque houses in their fight for freedom, for, as producer Herman Schumlin says, it "smacks of censorship" without legitimate grounds. And it definitely shows that "Variety," trade paper of show business, is right in insisting that we maintain our Fifth Freedom, that of free expression in entertainment...