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...decade. The transfer of Junior Stephens from short-to-third has given the defense a huge boost, which outweighs even Lou Boudreau's 250 hitting. And Johnny Pesky is always ready to take Boudreau's place. Only the catching is bad, but it is very bad. Les Moss, bought from St. Louis to replace Birdie Tebbetts, is just barely keeping his batting average over...
...Take It With You (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC) is a radio serial based on the PulitzerPrizewinning (1936) comedy by George Kaufman and Moss Hart. The opening show clung tenaciously to the original playscript in putting the zany Sycamore family through its paces: Penny, writing plays in the parlor; Paul, detonating explosives in the basement; Grandpa, exhibiting snakes in the living room. Cinemactor Walter Brennan plays the philosophizing Grandpa Vanderhof, and is described with deadly accuracy as "a wonderful, scheming, lovable old pixie...
...Forbidden Past (RKO Radio) is set in New Orleans during the gaslight era, when connoisseurs of showboat melodrama might have taken it seriously. The moss-hung script casts Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a fiery belle scheming to win back the Yankee doctor (Robert Mitchum) who has scorned her and married another...
Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast...
...Moonlight, by W. Stanley Moss. How a handful of British agents kidnaped a German general under the eyes of his garrison in Crete; a high-spirited account of one of the boldest stunts of the war, by one of the Britons who brought it off (TIME, Sept...