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Show Vofcj of an 'nnorrnt liystandcr: The Story Tellers: Following In he typewriter ribbon of Shirer and Flannery, tiie last CBS boy in Ber-jn, Ber-jn, Howard K. Smith, dishes out a ilice of exciting reoortage in "Last Train From Berlin" (Knopfi. Goeb-jels' Goeb-jels' barrage of lies. Smith states, las discredited him in Naziland and wiped inflict a spiritual nervous oreakdown on the Germans. Seems ,hat the only people who take Goeb-3els Goeb-3els seriously are a few American jditorialists . . . The most eyebrow-afting eyebrow-afting part of "Sabotage!" is that many of those in the Benedict Arnold Ar-nold camp have escaped the clutches jf the law . . . It should be compulsory com-pulsory for all defense workers to read W. L. White's "They Were Expendable" Ex-pendable" Harcourt, Brace). If that report can't make you put nn extra ounce of steam in your work, nothing can . . . Wallace Carroll, the UP foreign correspondent, hangs the crepe around the crystal ball by predicting, in "We're in It With Russia" Rus-sia" (Houghton-Mifflin) that after Hitler is crushed there will be a revolution in Europe. But it's hard to understand how Europeans will have any stomach for blood baths after this war is over . . . Corporal Hargrove's cap and bell version of army life, "See Here, Private Hargrove" Har-grove" (Henry Holt) is funnier than a top sgt. with a soprano voice. If Clare Boothe gets to congress she'll make many of the windbags there let go of the flying trapeze and come down to earth . . . She's one to break up the demagoguery and force them to drop the its, buts and howevers . . . She revealed that in her initial oration with: "What's all this cooing with Franco and Laval, anyhow? All they wish us is bad luck!" . . . John Mason Brown's account of his operation will be called "Insides Out" . . . Jolson, back from Britain, reports the high morale there ... "I went to see a movie," he says, "and it contained some newsreel scenes of the first Nazi air blitz showing a movie audience shivering from fright. The Londoners In the real audience rocked with derisive laughter." The explanation of certain military mili-tary leaders (to the public relations execs, who take the brunt of squawks over lack of war news) is this: "We're not interested In good write-ups only victory. The thing to remember is this: The public always al-ways cheers the winner!" , . . The peacetime use of inventions (which are now military secrets) will make the peacetime world a fairyland . . . If you wondered about those familiar famil-iar voices (of the narrators) in "The Battle of Midway" film they belong be-long to Henry Fonda and Donald Crisp. In case you were wondering about the difference between the Garand repeating rifle (used in com-bat) com-bat) General MacArthur is the authority au-thority for rating it the tops. Said the General: "A child asked his dad the difference between a Garand and an ordinary rifle. Thert'i a big difference,' said the father. 'It's Just as if I spoke, and then your mother spoke' "... The one they still talk about at Fort Dix concerns the Sgt. who bawled out a rookie for standing around with his hands in his pockets . . . "You'd think," burked the Sarge, "you had a $1,000 and were afraid of losing it!" . . . The rookie happened to be Pvt. H. Morgenthau, 3rd, whose pop is the Treasury biggie ... An acting corporal (one waiting for a corponil-cy) corponil-cy) is called "A Hollywood Private." This story, which is sweeping the town they insist actually happened hap-pened ... A high-ranking Washington Washing-ton official came to see the President Presi-dent and delivered his views on a mutter of importance . . . When he was finished, the President smiled and said: "I'm inclined to agree with you" . . . The man departed, glowing with satisfaction and goodwill good-will toward F.D.R. ... A few mm-utes mm-utes later another caller discussed the same subject taking the opposite oppo-site stand . . . When he was through the President smiled and said: "I'm inclined to agree with you" . . . The visitor lock his leave flushed with success. Mrs. Roosevelt, who supposedly heard both conversations, criticized the President . . . "How mild you do that to those men?" she observed. ob-served. "It is not only unethical but it is unwise politically!" F.D.R. smiled and said: "I'm Inclined In-clined to agree with you." The Magic Lanterns: Far and away the film of the week is the gov't-sponsored Battle of Midway. Kodaked in color, the scenes of Jap havoc make you fall of fight. The ragged effect you can blame nn the bombs, which Jolted the camera right off its perch. It's a real pulse whipper . . . Ginger Rogers rigs herself out in pigtails and pinafores to cut a swath among the puppy lovers In "The Major and the Minor." Mi-nor." Ray Milland and R. Bench-ley Bench-ley chip In. and it all kecLs you laughing out loud. |