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...popular imagination: he's not at all the stuffed-shirt as represented in "Heavenly Days," and he doesn't go around looking for the "Average American"--he leaves that to Crockett Johnson's Mr. O'Mally, who is considerably more mature in his humor than Fibber McGee of Wistful Vista...
Last week the Army announced that G.I. theaters could not exhibit Darryl F. Zanuck's $5,000,000 Technicolorful Wilson. Also prohibited was a Fibber McGee movie called Heavenly Days, in which the irreverent Fibber, the wag of Wistful Vista, is selected Mr. Average Man in a Gallup Poll, goes to Washington, and is tossed out of the Senate when he tries to make a speech (see cut). Then the Army reversed its field and said it had not made up its mind yet. But it was firm on the rest of its bans. Army post exchanges...
...wonderful shot of a German train, moving toward dynamite and demolition: hidden in a soft-blown, shining vista of heavy summer leaves, it sprouts a smoothly advancing, dreamlike tree of smoke...
...flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la. . . . However welcome the sprinkling of dandelions across the Business School vista may be, the vernal efforts of Dame Nature are not alone responsible for the jubilation of the Junior Ensigns. Theirs is the joy of accomplishment which the combined connivance of the Management graders and the disbursing faculty has not been able to quench. The end of the second term is in sight, and with this consummation comes that added element of freedom which has been a shining beacon amid the trials and terrors of John A. Hancock, Ensign, S.C., (symbol number...
Englishmen were offered a long vista last week. From London Bridge they could look through an open door and see the Statue of Liberty. This surrealist panorama, in eight colors, was the cover of the first issue of a brand-new digest-size monthly magazine called Transatlantic (price: one shilling). Its purpose: to give the British a candid, unpropagandized look...