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Chauvinistic Columnist Walter Winchell had his mind and heart in the war long before it came to the nation on Dec. 7, 1941. A lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, he immediately asked for active duty. After some voluntary public-relations duties in New York City and four beseeching trips to Washington, the Navy finally, on Dec. 1, 1942, ordered him to report for active duty to the Commander of the South Atlantic Force at Recife, Brazil...
Married. Major George Fielding Eliot, 48, CBS war commentator, New York Herald Tribune columnist, author (The Ramparts We Watch); and June Mabel Johnston Cawley Hynd, till recently a director of women's programs for NBC; she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
Predictions, 1942. Many a forecast for 1942 turned out poorly. Columnist Raymond Clapper thought the U.S. East Coast would be token-bombed, that the Nazis would loose poison gas on England. Columnist George Fielding Eliot wrote that Japs would be "swiftly and decisively beaten." Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing predicted Hitler would either retire or be ousted by the German Army. Author Fletcher Pratt said only a miracle could save Russia "from utter defeat." Foreign Correspondent John T. Whitaker limb-climbed with a flat forecast that the Nazis would invade Spain and Portugal in the spring. Ex-CBS Berlin Newscaster Harry...
...nonsense concerns Grant's rather natural interest in the little ecdysiast gone good via marriage to one of Der Fuehrer's greasier agents. Fifth-columnist Slezak and bride tour Europe on a sort of official honeymoon, with newshawk Cary watchfully in tow. In no time at all countries begin to fall, and with them the plausibility of the film. What had been witty dialogue now falls flat, what started out to be a whirlwind plot is slowed by refugees and the agonies of captive peoples. Director McCarey makes no attempt to eliminate the more sordid elements from the story...
...Writer Arthur Daley began authoring Kieran's "Sports of the Times" column. Even then readers may have failed to notice the difference, because Daley's first effort was extremely Kieranesque. In a discussion of the Oregon State and New York City College basketball teams, both called "Beavers," Columnist Daley referred to an Oregon beaver as Castor Ore-goniensis and to a City College beaver as Castor Nova Eboracensis...