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Show . ONCE OVER 1 Duty and Star Spangled Jackpot By H. I. Phillips 1 THIS, UNLESS PEACE COMES, can be it, mister! .... The ultimate test, the battle on the home grounds, the crucible of faith and fortitude! Already the pledge, the command and the tone of defiance rise above the small talk, the night-club banter, ban-ter, the cocktail lounge laughter, the juke-box melodies, the radio jingles and the hysterical screams of studio audiences on jackpot programs. John Q. Citizen rises to, a stern call to duty instead of to an appeal to get vitamin-enriched biscuits, the right cereal and the super hair tonic. Dawn comes with a clear summons sum-mons instead of a crooner, a radio breakfast couple's program, a disc jockey's hour and a commercial commer-cial for noodle soup. Night falls to a summons to high courage and not to a thousand Video gags, radio stunts. Eat More Bananas Week, the coarse laughter of the racketeer, rack-eteer, the leer of the five-percenters, the mad nrge to get something for nothing all do a fadeout as horse sense and the hour of decision take over. The America of jackpots, jazz, giggles, gags, joy rides, playboys, box top slogans, four-ring four-ring circuses and marathon waltzes bow to the America of consecration, sacrifice and herolo endeavor. "Come out fighting!" drowns out "Shall we dance?" and "You, too, can make a million dollars." "What can I do to help?" rings across the plains and mountains completely effacing the routine "In conference," "Sorry, but I'm too busy to bother now" and "Let's get together at lunch some time next month " The jackpot is Freedom. The $60 question is, "You and who else, Joe?" , The top tunes of the Hit Parades are "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "The Star Spangled Banner" and "America, I Love You." U.N. is moving rapidly from Lake Success into its new skyscraper home on East River, New York. On a clear day you can see peace from the top floors if you have a telescope, a powerful light and a little opium. Chicago is trying out a 90-day test of video-by-telephone. By paying pay-ing $1 a day 300 families are getting get-ting two full-length Hollywood movies. As we understand it the picture is sent out all scrambled up and the pieces come together the right way only on sets equipped for the dollar charge. It is going to seem mighty strange to be getting get-ting only half a horse or two thirds of a cowboy on your set while the man next door sees the complete movie. "Hello, central, give me 'Gone With The Wind'" |