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Around the Bend. They were all sorts -religious idealists, graduates of Army guardhouses, drunkards, professional bad-men, adolescent adventurers; their one unifying trait was that they seemed to care little for this world. The mission assigned them sounded simple. While General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's Chinese divisions held the Japanese in position, the Marauders were to slice around end in long flanking attacks and set up roadblocks in the rear. The technique worked at Walawbum and Shaduzup; at Myitkyina it ended in disaster for the 5307th...
...Last Word (CBS, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). Broadway's Abe Burrows and Commander Whitehead, at sea with Schweppes, bend the language with Dr. Bergen Evans and John Mason Brown...
...Louis is in trouble and will have a hard time finishing higher than fifth. Manager Solly Hemus lost his best pitcher, Jones, to the Giants and has little to replace him. Vinegar Bend Mizell and Larry Jackson are only so-so and behind them, there is little besides a highly touted rookie, Ernie Broglio. Hard-hitting Joe Cunningham (.312) is set at first as is Don Blasingame at second. There is a gaping hole at short which may have to be filled with Alex Grammas, who would have trouble hitting .300 in the Little Leagues. Ken Boyer, an almost-great...
...really was; and the illusion is further fostered by Heroine Amanda Blake as Kitty, who is "obviously not selling chocolate bars." Arness can shake hands with grandma (Colt .45) almost as fast as the next man, and he wears his pants so tight he can't bend over. Minneapolis-born, wounded at Anzio, he rode with the posse in a few John Wayne westerns. Gunsmoke pays him $2,000 a week for 39 weeks, and on top of that, he says, "I can make $100,000 a year in personal appearances, just working weekends...
...movie, She Done Him Wrong (1933), was a remake of Broadway's Diamond Lil and brought her measure to measure with Mae West's 38-24-38. "I like 'em tight, girls," growled Mae, and was soon jammed into costumes in which she could not "lie, bend or sit." So that West could relax a bit between takes, a board was set up for her to lean against. Marlene Dietrich, arriving for a fitting, "quickly peels down, revealing the most beautiful French lingerie I've ever seen, all white, just a touch of lace...