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Entitled "Let Freedom Ring" and signed by the Emergency Council, the stapled muzzle proclaimed in patronizing tone that the "function of Jester "is to be a humorous magazine, in the New Yorker Style, but the editor has chosen this issue as his personal medium for an adulterated discussion of a matter which has already been settled...
Bewitched (M.G.M.) is a double-personality melodrama with double-medium antecedents. Directed by radio's Arch Oboler, who adapted it from his own "best original air drama of 1938," the picture both gains and loses by its crossbreeding : the dialogue and sound track are so urgent and explicit, and what transpires on the screen so comparatively conventional, that you could get the whole show with your eyes shut. Even so, it makes a rather interesting movie. The story...
Bright Future. At first, Emil will help make but one medium-priced washer, closely resembling the 1942's (G.E. made six prewar models, three of them at or near the loss level to meet low-priced competitors). Most will go straight to G.E.'s 60 domestic distributors, who will dole them out through dealers to the appliance-hungry U.S. (estimates of first-year sales run as high as $2 billion for the industry). The rest will go to globe-girdling International G.E. salesmen who hope to get the jump on competitors for the South American and South African...
During the war, until its capture by the Allies last September, Radio Luxembourg was worked overtime by the Nazis. After that, under the direction of Colonel Paley, it was SHAEF's main medium for instructions to the underground. Now SHAEF's job is done, but the prize station will remain Allied-controlled for the time being. However, it seems likely to be available, sooner or later, to the highest bidder...
...mess sergeants at Fort McPherson, to whom hearty appetites are an old story, were openly impressed. The medium-sized (140-lb., 5 -ft. 7-in.) private kept bringing his tray back & back. When he had finished breakfast he had finished 60 eggs and 76 hot cakes. At that rate, he was getting some 30,000 calories a day (a hearty male diet...