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Recently, France's good friend, Annamite Emperor Bao Dai (a topflight ping-pong player), formed a government of Viet Minh leaders who promptly ousted Bao Dai. New ruler of Annam, Tonkin and Cochin China was cagy, tuberculous Russian-speaking Premier Ho Chin Minh (known a generation ago around the Paris Peace Conference as Nguyen-Ai-Quoc). Followers of Communist Ho Chin Minh insulted and cowed the French in Saigon, tore down the World War I memorial, flung earth from the Verdun battlefield into the Saigon River...
Washington and Manila were in a fantastic tizzy. Some celestial observer, watching the frantic fumblings of the victors and the rise of a new Government in Tokyo (see FOREIGN NEWS), might have thought that the Japs had dropped an atomic bomb on the U.S. Said a topflight U.S. admiral: "Here we had things neatly laid out and the war was going fine-then the damned Japs surrender and throw us into a hell of a stew...
Most of summer radio's other hopefuls were drooping on the vines, too. When the high-priced September to May regulars (Jack Benny, Bob Hope, et al) went vacationing, their topflight writers and producers went too. Summer's second-drawer big names had second-drawer scripts. Some of the resulting bigger busts...
...operated on the premise that entertainment for servicemen was not only "desirable but essential." He had a big job recruiting entertainers, who were leary of the hardships and pay (the U.S.O., which is subsidized by the National War Fund, pays run-of-the-mill entertainers $100 a week, topflight volunteers $10 a day). But by hook & crook, Lastfogel rounded up thousands of smalltime entertainers. These troupers, formed into small variety companies, were (and still are) the backbone of U.S.O.-Camp Shows...
...fill a troublesome spot on the Surplus Property Board, Harry Truman once again reached out to Missouri. He got set to call in 43-year-old W. Stuart Symington Ill, president of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., and a topflight U.S. industrialist...