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...ultimate discovery that she really loves her traveling companion (Robert Paige), a cardsharp. In fact, that sort of easy foolishness might make just the right sort of clothesline to hang a beautiful show on. But such a show needs delicate direction, which can kid it along over the bigger, sillier bumps, and make every possible use of its natural beauty. There is no finesse about the kidding in Can't Help Singing, and little astuteness in the use of the open country, the wagons and the people crossing it, or the whole sunrise sense of the period...
Paperboard Started It. All this sounded sillier to the paper-saving citizens than it actually was. Fact is, paper leads a double life. First it appears as newsprint or book and magazine paper, writing paper or strong kraft wrapping paper, all of which are made primarily out of virgin wood pulp. Later on, some of it is used a second time to make paperboard, and (except in the South, where some board is made of kraft pulp) 85% of the raw material for that comes from old papers. When the demand for cardboard to package war materials shot up skyhigh...
...also little point in what the Axis had to say about being, for once, beaten to a strategic plum. Said the German Foreign Ministry: "Since Madagascar is far from any Axis base, the true reason for its occupation by the British is its wealth." The Jap sounded still sillier: "Radio Tokyo predicted the occupation. We are great prophets...
...Stripes Forever, Anchors Aweigh and God Bless America at the President's inauguration. Meanwhile Arthur Murray introduced B. M. I. tunes in his dancing schools, on the theory that his customers would have to learn them if they wanted to practice by radio at home. Among the sillier consequences of the airy civil war, which at week's end showed no signs of letting up: the possible banning of auto toots on the air, for fear they might infringe some ASCAP tune...
Last week Doughnut Corp. launched Donut Week with sillier shenanigans than ever. Radiozany Gracie Allen pushed a button setting off doughnut machines all over the country. While Manhattan paid its respects to the usual "Donut Queen," Camden, Maine honored the late Captain Hanson Crockett Gregory, alleged inventor of the doughnut's hole,* planned to erect a statue to him. Placing its Joe Cook dunker on view in its Times Square Mayflower Doughnut Shop, Doughnut Corp...