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...airs Assignment Home (Sat., 4:30 p.m., E.W.T.), a well-written, realistic program dramatizing the return of soldiers to civilian life (last week's story was about the readjustment of a deafened serviceman...
...leave in the CBI theater, 15 British soldiers had fallen ill and a U.S. Negro orchestra leader had died. The disease was spreading like fire through the city, packed with thousands of U.S. and British soldiers. Although 29 British soldiers had come down with it, not one U.S. serviceman had yet been infected-thanks to the U.S. Army's compulsory vaccination rule...
King Farouk, touched by a story in a Cairo newspaper, did his bit toward a serviceman's rehabilitation. The story: Scottish sapper David Bell, sightless and handless since a booby-trap explosion near El Alamein in 1942, hoped to start life anew with a tobacco shop in his hometown, Edinburgh. Farouk's bit: he sent Bell 25,000 choice Egyptian cigarets with which to set up shop...
None of the 18 rookies who made their debuts grabbed any headlines. One of the two best publicized, one-armed Pete Gray of the Browns, scratched a single in his first game, then hurt his shoulder diving for a line drive. The other was switch-hitting, ex-serviceman Al Schoendienst, who once swung the meanest bat in the International League (despite almost total blindness in one eye); he rapped a triple off the right field wall in the opener, then helped lose the game for the St. Louis Cardinals with a two-base error...
Irving Berlin came home from a three-months' tour of the Pacific war areas with a new song described as "a serviceman's lament." Chorus...