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...attics in the Army or Navy. So those who send Christmas presents to men in Northern Ireland. Australia, Iceland, Trinidad, Egypt, Midway or Brooklyn Navy Yard had better send things that are wanted. Last week, just in time for givers, the Department Store Economist published the results of a poll in which 1,000 servicemen rated 51 potential gifts as "swell," "fair" or "junk...
...giver who takes the poll to heart will send any serviceman a cribbage board unless he specifically requests it, nor burden an infantryman with a portable phonograph. He will steer clear of diaries, shun warm bathrobes, spurn a waterproof money belt for any but sailors...
Wives and mothers may rejoice at the poll popularity of homemade cookies and other eats, but the unfeeling Navy Department puts in: "Stale or mashed cakes, cookies reduced to crumbs and spoiled fruit do not make for a Merry Christmas for boys overseas." Instead, Mother should send a sewing kit (in Army & Navy sonny wants it). The Navy likes overnight bags...
Amid the hue & cry of Congressional debate, a political revolution of at least minor importance was about to be enacted this week. Ready for final passage was the soldiers' vote bill. And though Southern Senators might weep and States' rights theorists tear their hair, the bill suspended poll taxes for the duration of the war, as far as soldiers and sailors are concerned...
...patter of little comedians around the house in the mornings, for breakfast programs are unusually successful. Hundreds of local stations have their chuckling chanticleers, and Don McNeill of Blue's Breakfast Club was this year voted the Star of Stars in Movie-Radio Guide's annual poll...