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...risk of having my Lone Ranger badge taken away for being a member of the Fifth Column, I'd like to talk about the flood of patriotic songs that the factories in Tin Pan Alley have been turning out recently...
...nippy early morning, as the sun began to rim the eastern pines, a gallery of 80 or more started out with the dogs. Not a few with a nose for points felt they had seen the championship heat in the very first brace: The Texas Ranger, sensation of the prairie-chicken trials, v. Tarheelia's Lucky Strike, 1940 pheasant champion. They were right. The Ranger, a five-year-old liver-&-white pointer, owned by D. B. McDaniel of Houston and handled by little Jack Harper, was judged champion. Runner-up: Lucky Strike. During the three days, The Ranger found...
Sister of the Yorktown and Enterprise, smaller than the 33,000-ton Saratoga and Lexington, bigger than the Ranger and Wasp, Hornet is one of five carriers ordered before the U. S. decided on a two-ocean Navy. The other four (Kearsarge, Essex, Bon Homme Richard and Intrepid) are on the way. After them will come seven more, all ordered (and all under construction). Barring a war, in 1945-46 the U. S. will have 18 carriers. If Britain should fall this spring and surrender its fleet intact to Germany, the U. S. Navy's carrier equipment would...
Among the Wylie standouts of the past season: My Client Curley, Norman Corwin's adaptation of Lucille Fletcher's tale of a fabulous dancing caterpillar. Best comedy: Jack Benny. Best western: The Lone Ranger. Best daytime serial: Pepper Young's Family. Best talk: The President's Address to the Science Congress. Best music continuities: The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, the John Kirby Show. Best newscasters: Major George Fielding Eliot, Elmer Davis, Edward R. Murrow, William L. Shirer, Wythe Williams and Raymond Gram Swing. Best spot reporting: James Bowen's description...
...into forgetting its parentage by either sound or Technicolor when they hear the half-breed Louvette (Paulette Goddard) woo the heroine's wayward brother (Robert Preston) with such primitive verbal caresses as: "I eat your heart out," or "My heart seeng lack a bird." When the shy Texas Ranger (Gary Cooper) casually rides his cayuse right into the heart of a pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine (Madeleine Carroll) tells him, "Texas must be heaven." "It will be," says he, "when you get there." Climax both of plot and of corny dialog arrives...