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After last week's race, the men in the press box were ready to forgive Hagg all this puckery humor. In awed silence, they watched him take off his shoes and patter barefoot over the scorching concrete of the stadium to the broadcasting booth. There, impassive as a totem pole, he stood before a microphone, said hello to his countrymen back home...
...Preliminary Bout. The answering roar of "Bull Bill" could be heard by 130,000,000 rubber-conscious Americans, as he in tended it should. In a warm-up for Patter son, Jeffers ripped a horn into OWI's Elmer Davis for gloomily predicting that the nation was too optimistic about rub ber. Jeffers harshly said that Davis didn't know what he was talking about, stuck to his previous announcement: civilians would be purchasing synthetic tires early next year. Then he rumbled about Washingtonians "sitting around desks and is suing orders and grousing about someone else taking something...
...been taught in the air. Some 60 maneuver sheets were developed to give the essentials of each maneuver in simple, nontechnical language. Instructors got a manual which set forth the best teaching vocabulary. Last week the Navy was making good use of an adaptation of the manual, U.S. Navy Patter. Says Patter...
Barred from Navy teaching is "gun" for throttle, "flipper" for elevator, many another loose expression. With instruction based on Patter, students can-and often are-passed from one teacher to another with no risk of confusion from linguistic individualism. Said one student pilot: "Patter is a great idea. The instructors talk more like each other now. They still swear alike, too, when...
Most in evidence and least in the way is Comic Milton Berle (Earl Carroll's Vanities, See My Lawyer), whose patter is sometimes funny, though his aversion to new jokes is hardly an asset. The screen's best deadpan butler, Arthur Treacher, buttles his way through a succession of poor skits. With finely formed, Hungarian-born Ilona Massey, the Follies does a little girl-glorifying, but in general the show lacks oomph as well...