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Such glimpses as these, from a handful of correspondents in Europe and the Pacific, have made CBS's Feature Story (4:30-4:45 p.m. E.W.T.) one of the bright spots of daytime radio. Five days a week, the correspondents report on such everyday trivia as food, women's clothes, theatrical highjinks, soldiers' preferences in souvenirs, street sounds and smells, current gags and reading habits. These news sidelights carry the quiet impact of a newsreel, .the excitement of unvarnished history...
Colonel Ed has seen things in the company he has kept that, would burn and illumine the pages of history. But his memoirs, if he ever writes them, would probably lack the acid, gossipy trivia that make such memoirs bestsellers. To this native of Hopkinsville, Ky. the world contains two kinds of men: gentlemen and others. In his rougher dealings with possible assassins (the legend is that Starling can "sense" a crank in a crowd), gentlemanly Colonel Ed has been known to address a suspicious character as "pahdner." Ambassadors, foreign potentates, Supreme Court justices, Congressmen, newsmen and other citizens...
Such matters, however, are mere trivia to Ken Safely. His pleasant smile is even broader than usual after his marriage last Saturday night. But how was it he was excused from gym on the following Thursday? Are you ailing...
Broadway is busy, its nightclubs jammed (TIME, March 22), but Broad way columnists are writing less about Broadway than ever before. Time was when most Broadway columnists concentrated on bedroom trivia about marriages, divorces, impending births and who-was-that-lady items. Since the war began they have written more & more about national and international affairs. They still peep through keyholes and write in keyhole language, but now most of the keyholes are in Washington and Chungking doors...
Your handling of this matter was superb. Historical changes have always been brought about by significant causes so obvious that it seems incredible they weren't properly understood. Nearly always, however, they were obscured by contemporary trivia which seemed more important at the time...