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World War II's favorite pin-up girls are holding their own. Two secretaries keep busy mailing out the classic shot of Betty Grable in a tight bathing suit. Studies of Rita Hayworth, who has not made a movie since 1948's The Loves of Carmen, are still in demand. Also in high favor: Jane Russell, Esther Williams, Virginia Mayo...
...celebrated the G.I.'s exultant return to civilian life. Now that olive drab is back in style, the Technicolored cinemusical re-enlists in the Army and uses the Japanese occupation as a backdrop for songs & dances by Dan Dailey and Betty Grable, World War II's favorite pin-up girl...
Meanwhile, in Brighton, officials were battling a comparatively tiny but potentially far deadlier invader-epidemic smallpox. Compared to the sprawling, shapeless influenza blight, it was easy to pin down. The lethal virus had been brought to Britain by an R.A.F. officer who had flown in from Karachi to visit his girl friend, a Brighton telephone operator. It passed from the flyer to the girl to her father. The father died. Before the girl's case could be properly diagnosed, three nurses at the Bevendean Infectious Disease Hospital had caught it. The flyer's clothes had been sent...
Overtime for the Mayor. Campogalliano buzzed. Ostilio, said neighbors, had been beaten with a matterello (rolling pin) by his wife, who greatly outweighs him, and confined to his house for two days. Ostilio and Santina denied any improper relationship. Said Ostilio: "She's just an office colleague." Said Santina of Ostilio: "Among other things, I don't like his mustache." Santina opened a counteroffensive. Said she: "I could tell you a few things about the mayor. He often got me to work overtime in his office, and he has a pair of very long hands indeed...
...advice. "A school," he wrote, "is no place for merely drilling boys and girls as soldiers are drilled on parade-no place for the preservation of that 'order' which is seen in their hushing at their master's frown, as a wheel stops the moment the pin fastens it." Nor was it a place for book learning alone-of mere ciphering with no relation to the things children could actually count, or "mere atlas geography" with no relation to real "direction, distances [and] bearings...