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...them, Walter McGee, was sentenced to death. Strangely sympathetic, Mary interceded, got him a commutation to life imprisonment. Stranger still seemed Mary's lasting friendship for him, for his brother, George, who had been convicted with him and sentenced for life, and for a third man in the gang, Clarence Glick. Frequently she visited them in jail...
...platter of "Stomp It Off" that Tommy did several months ago. An original by former Luncefordite Sy Oliver, it swings easily and tastefully....Jimmy Dorsey has always been a favorite of mine both because of the fact that personally he and the people working for him are a swell gang, and because they play fine dance music and better swing...
Some Wylie selections: best quiz show, Information Please; best human interest, We, the People; best variety, Kate Smith's hour; best fun, Fred Allen's; best melodrama, Gang Busters' dramatization of Bank Robber Eddie Doll's career; best children's shows, Ireene Wicker's musicked Alice in Wonderland, The Nuremberg Stove from the Let's Pretend series; best verse, Archibald MacLeish's Air Raid, Norman Corwin's Seems Radio Is Here to Stay; best news dramatization, THE MARCH OF TIME; best spot news reporting, Jack Knell's on the Squalus...
Shirley Temple-"Presh" to her mother -now a radio actress, has long been a radio fan. She has six or eight radio sets at her command in her daily comings & goings, likes Gang Busters almost as well as her favorite, the Lone Ranger. But, because of studio and parental objections, she has never been allowed to act on a radio program before this week...
Sweden, which used to boss the Baltic and lick the Russians pretty regularly until Napoleon persuaded Denmark and Russia to gang up on her in 1808, joined Finland in mining the Gulf of Bothnia to keep the Red Navy out and Finland's supply lines open. Forty thousand more men were mobilized, bringing Sweden's armed forces to 150,000. The fortress of Boden, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, was reinforced with reserves. Here was the greatest Russian threat to Sweden, marked by the steady progress of a Russian column across Finland toward Tornio...