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Alabama Born. Long ago, on their plantation near Montgomery (Ala.), Mr. & Mrs. John Crommelin decided that Southern boys need discipline. John Jr., their eldest, was sent off experimentally to the Naval Academy. The experiment worked, so one by one the other boys-Henry, Charles, Richard, Quentin-were launched in John's wake...
Gene Krupa got the greatest ovation in the history of Broadway's Paramount Theater - on his first theater date since he was paroled from San Quentin last summer on a narcotics charge. He was sitting at the drums with Tommy Dorsey's band when it rose in the dark out of the pit. There had been no announcement that he was back. Hepcats in the audience saw him before the lights went up. They started murmuring. The opening number was Gettin' Sentimental Over You. Four thousand enthusiasts shouted and beat their hands off. Drummer Krupa wept...
Durante was followed by the handsome chanteuse, Hildegarde, and by some excerpts from the U.S. Army Air Forces' Broadway smash hit, Winged Victory. Correspondent Quentin Reynolds made some remarks about the fighting fronts; Maurice Rocco, who impresses many people by playing the piano standing up, gave some agile boogie-woogie. Bob Hope closed the bill in smash style with comments on his recent battlefront tour. Sample...
...Quentin Reynolds, the spaghetti-eating correspondent, who is also from Brooklyn, told this colorful tale last week on his radio program, Salute to Youth (NBC, Tues., 7:30 p.m., E.W T.). He recently replaced the show's William L. (They Were Expendable) White as Goodyear's $1,500-a-week coast-to-coast war-story teller...
Friendly Fellow. That Quentin Reynolds has a nose for incident and a lively narrative style has been amply demonstrated since World War II began. Save for a few visits home to the U.S., he has spent most of the war in Europe as Collier's foreign correspondent. As such, he has covered battle actions (e.g., Dieppe), averaged 20 Collier's pieces plus a couple of books a year, moved enthusiasts to call him the Richard Harding Davis of World...