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Gimbels' Bargain Basement looked festive. The counters were gone, the merchandise out of sight. Between the mirrored pillars long tables were set for midnight supper: hot dogs, doughnuts, popcorn, coffee. Some 750 New Yorkers were there to bid, with war bond pledges, on such precious items as Thomas Jefferson's Bible, a letter written by George Washington...
Glib, wild-haired Musicomedian Danny Kaye, working like a turkey gobbler, held up the auction's prize piece. It was not precious. It was a curio: Comic Jack Benny's violin, "Old Love In Bloom"-a $75 imitation Amati. Everyone present knew that only a war could have persuaded Benny to part with the old prop which had provided him with half his gags for the last 20 years. Before anyone could make a bid an attendant rushed up to Auctioneer Kaye with a letter. He opened it and gulped: "I have...
...hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They Got Me Covered" has two advantages over previous Hope vehicles: Miss Lamour is content to be infrequent and supporting; and there is no Bing Crosby (lovable though he may be) to take up precious feet...
...hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They Got Me Covered" has two advantages over previous Hope vehicles: Miss Lamour is content to be infrequent and supporting; and there is no Bing Crosby (lovable though he may be) to take up precious feet...
...course space on the trans-Pacific transport planes is always so precious that we could not even consider asking the Army to fly thousands of copies of TIME across 7,000 miles of ocean each week; but within a few hours after Sherrod's cable arrived we flashed back word to him to sound out the possibility of printing a special edition of TIME in Australia for General MacArthur...