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...heat was the news most of the week almost everywhere in the U.S. It was hot in the South, hot in the Southwest, hot in the Midwest, hot and humid as a Finnish bathhouse along the Eastern Seaboard...
...down the Eastern Seaboard, such sure-fire wandering stars as Horton promise to dominate this summer's season even more than seasons past. Summer stock as an acting and playwrighting laboratory has almost disappeared; at an average $2 a seat, there is too much money to be made with proven plays and proven stars. Money is also made from stage-struck youngsters who pay up to $500 a season for the privilege of collecting tickets, lugging scenery about and memorizing one-line roles. Twenty-five new theaters and some 175 old houses, about half of them employing Equity actors...
...Army Air Forces tried to impress the people of the Eastern Seaboard last week by flying 135 World War II Superfortresses over their heads. The main target of a simulated bombing attack was New York City, which only 101 bombers reached. One squadron had to be diverted to Florida after it ran into storms over Arkansas. To the disgust of General George C. Kenney, boss of the Strategic Air Command, one squadron reached New York 20 minutes late...
...Manhattan and its surrounding counties, by last week, there were eleven cases of smallpox (including one death) traceable to a visiting Mexican (TIME, April 21). Health officials hoped that the situation was under control. But up & down the eastern seaboard, plain citizens were taking no chances...
...Near Maxville, Fla., the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's northbound Orange Blossom Special hit a split rail with a speed that sent six sleepers and the diner skidding on their streamlined sides. Reason: bad maintenance. Injured...