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Jack Benny, tanned and plumper, got back to Manhattan from his ten-week U.S.O. tour of Africa, the Middle East and Italy, where his troupe was the first show to land on the European mainland. Said he: "In Iran, according to the current films, Shirley Temple hasn't been born yet, and Francis X. Bushman has just won the popularity contest." Two days later arrived...
Britain's lucid, 76-year-old Sir Bernard Pares said last week that American ideas on Russia are 20 years out of date. At the end of a ten-week lecture tour, he spoke with more authority than does the usual British tourist: he has studied Russian history for nearly half a century, visited Russia more than a score of times, taught in two English universities, packed many tomes with meaty detail...
Result: a sale, up to last week, of 600,000 copies-more (for a similar ten-week period) than any previous hit in Irving Berlin's hit-studded career...
Using a new method asdopted by the Navy, the Crimson Network will offer undergraduates a ten-week course in receiving Morse code...
...series of experiments trying to determine who can learn the International Morse code, and who can't; under what conditions it's learned best; and whether or not success or failure can be predicated in advance. The thirty guinea pigs are more than willing subjects, for during the ten-week course they'll all attain speeds of close to thirteen words a minute in receiving code, enough to win them their amateur Radio Operators' license...