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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Accent on Youth, with Jane Wyatt, Basil Rathbone...
...amiable little story involves four department-store salesgirls (Claire Trevor, Gail Russell, Jane Wyatt, Ann Dvorak) who long for a flashy stage setting to help them catch millionaire husbands. They hit on the scheme of pooling their room rents and leasing a $300-a-month Long Island house. A nice retired saleslady (Billie Burke) agrees to act as their mother. After a bit of high-pressure persuasion, the store's pinchpenny fop of a floorwalker (Adolphe Menjou) is dragged along as a window-dressing husband & father...
Samplings. The 708,000 starts listed by Expediter Wyatt was a little better than one-half toward his 1,200,000 goal for the year. He was still optimistic about getting close to it. But national organizations of builders and real estate men were far from optimistic; they were also far from sure that 350,000 was the correct figure for completions. Some accused the National Housing Agency of inaccuracy. There had never been a national system of reporting completions before. Wyatt based his figure of 350.000 on samplings taken by the Department of Labor's bureau of statistics...
...Sharp pointed to Martin's opposition to the fortification of Guam in 1941 and to his firm position against pro-labor and price control legislation. She quoted Wilson Wyatt, National Housing Expediter, as telling her in Washington last week that "I'd like to come up and stump your district. It's largely because of one man in Washington that the veterans housing program is 3 1/2 months behind schedule--because of one man, Joseph W. Martin of Attleboro...
Constable Earp, who is a second cousin of Arizona's famed Wyatt Earp,* is going to fix up the house with paint and a new roof, and put a place in the back of the lot for his real-estate office. "I plan some little things like picture cards and a booklet on Wyatt Earp and the family," he said, "and if someone buys 50? worth I'll show him the Truman room free...