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Alice Faye and Betty Grable are a tough-to-beat combination, especially when they have a half-dozen good tunes to plug. Of course the pleasant renditions of the leading ladies make them as good as new. Jack Oakie helps the show along with some skillful bits of light comedy and Esther Ralston, who was a star about half the length of time ago that the songs were hits, makes a short but sensational appearance. The plot is much older than the songs, but it is unimportant...
Among the half-dozen U. S. stations which Variety dubbed tops, two (WOR and WNEW) were in Manhattan; one each in Cleveland (WGAR); Atlanta (WSB); Beckley, W. Va. (WJLS); McComb, Miss. (WSKB). None was in Chicago, which Variety rated the worst town for show management...
...rough weather off Scotland and was lost. Destroyers are what Britain can least afford to lose. Lack of them is what makes possible the kind of news the British faced as a new week began: a convoy 400 miles west of Ireland attacked by U-boats with a half-dozen ships sunk or damaged, two other vessels closer to Ireland attacked by bombing planes...
...watched a grey whale turn on its back with flippers outspread and lie helpless at the surface. Rushing at full speed, a killer put his nose against the whale's lips, forced its mouth open, and tore out great chunks of the soft, sponge-like tongue. A half-dozen other killers began tearing at the giant body, literally eating the whale alive...
Prominent in National Contesters are faculty members from the half-dozen contest schools in the U. S. Conducting their classes by correspondence, the schools charge an average tuition of $25, tip their members off to shrewd contest techniques, criticize contest entries. Typical suggestions: Mail early, keep simple, study your judges. The idiosyncrasies of the judges are much discussed in the forums of the National Contesters. Members often point out that veteran judge Professor Lloyd Dallas Herrold of Northwestern University has a weakness for coagulations like "Temptasty," that Procter & Gamble dislikes rhyming entries. Most National Contesters submit many entries to each...