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Scene: It's last fall and on a battle wagon in the South Pacific Jaygee Kerr's eyes are going bad on him, at least bad enough to keep him out of the line. But the Navy is his career, and with his exemplary record it's a simple matter to transfer over to Supply, where the physical requirements are not quite so rigid...
...Example: "I suppose some won't like this I don't care if they do or not this is my opinion . . . that 45 cents for some of them drinks is terrible. . . . Some of this stuff they serve you now has drove more guys to the water wagon than any Lent in history." Roundy Coughlin is Wisconsin's most widely read home-grown philosopher. This week he started his 21st year on the State Journal of Madison with: "Here is a chance for the Journal to throw a little party for me. This is just a little reminder...
Stitch In Time. In the springtime, young Earl used to cut willow branches with his pocket knife and whittle whistles. One afternoon he fell off a lurching wagon and almost bit off his tongue. Several quick stitches by the family doctor saved the unruly member for future high-school debating. Iowa speechmaking, and eventual policy-pronouncing from Republican National Headquarters. When he was still a boy, Earl settled on law as his career. He hung around the county courthouse after school, listening with interest to the routine trials of routine lawbreakers. Through his father, Zwingle Spangler, who carried weight...
...making his stage debut in a vaudeville skit written for him by a friend. His brother, finding that Wuppermann lacked marquee appeal, had taken the name of Morgan. Frank adopted it, too, and in 15 years built it into a Broadway asset (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Rosalie, The Band Wagon, etc.). In the early '30s he went to Hollywood for keeps...
...Queens family gets into the picture when Link Ferris (Dick Powell), a radio-writer who has lost his genius for selling soap, crosses the East River in search of warm human materials. He stumbles upon just that in the person of Bonnie Porter (Mary Martin), a lunch-wagon waitress who sings prettily at her work. Bonnie's heart is so warm that before Link can say Yes-but-I-earn-a-thousand-a-week, she feeds him, takes him home, until his hard luck shall change...