Show 1 t 1 1 Notes of an Innocent Bystander The Story Tellers Following inthe in hi hithe inthe the typewriter ribbon of Shirer and Flannery the last CBS boy in Berlin Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin Howard K Smith dishes out a slice of exciting reportage in Last Train From Berlin Knopf Goebbels' Goebbels Goebbels' Goebbels Goebbels' Goebbels Goeb- Goeb bels' bels barrage of lies Smith states has discredited him in and helped inflict a spiritual nervous breakdown on the Germans Seems that the only people who take Goebbels Goebbels Goebbels Goeb- Goeb bels seriously are a few American editorialists The most eyebrow- eyebrow lifting part of Sabotage is that many of those in the Benedict Arnold Arnold Arnold Ar Ar- nold camp have escaped the clutches of the law It should be compulsory compulsory compulsory com com- for all aU defense workers to read W. W L. L Whites White's They Were Vere Expendable Expendable Expendable Ex Ex- Ex- Ex Harcourt Brace If that report cant can't make you put an extra ounce of steam in your work nothing can Wallace Vallace Carroll the UP foreign correspondent hangs the crepe around the crystal ball by predicting in Were in It With Russia Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia Mifflin Houghton-Mifflin that after Hitler is crushed there will be a revolution in Europe But its it's hard to understand how Europeans will have any stomach for blood baths after this war is over Corporal Hargroves Hargrove's cap and bell beU version of army life See Here Private Hargrave Hargrove Hargrove Har Har- grove grave Henry Holt is funnier than thana a top with a soprano voice If Clare Boothe gets to congress shell 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 ifs lis buts and She revealed that in her initial oration with all this cooing with Franco and Laval anyhow All they wish us is bad luck John Mason Browns Brown's account of his operation will be called Insides Out J Jolson olson back from Britain reports the high morale there I uI went to see a movie he says and it contained some newsreel scenes of the first Nazi air blitz showing blitz showing a movie audience shivering from fright The Londoners in the real audience rocked with derisive laughter The explanation of certain military military military mili mili- tary leaders to the p public relations execs who take the brunt of squawks over lack of war news is this Were Vere not interested in good write ups write ups only victory The thing to remember is this The public always always always al al- al- 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 familiar familiar famil famil- voices of the narrators in The uThe Battle BattIe of Midway film they film they belong belong belong be be- long to Henry Fonda and Donald Crisp In case you were wondering about the difference between the Garand repeating rifle used in combat combat combat com com- bat General MacArthur is the authority authority authority au au- au- au for rating it the tops Said the General A uA child asked his dad the difference between a Garand and an ordinary rifle Theres a abig abig abig big difference said the father Its just as if I spoke and then your mother spoke The one they still talk about at Fort Dix DL concerns the who bawled out a rookie for standing around with his hands in to his pockets think barked the Sarge you had a 1000 and were afra afraid id of losing it I The rookie happened to be H H. H 3rd whose pop is the Treasury biggie An acting corporal one waiting for a corporal- corporal cy is called A Hollywood Private I This story which is sweeping the town they insist actually happened happened happened hap hap- A ranking high-ranking Washington Washing Washing- ton official came to see see the President President President dent and delivered his views on a matter of importance When he was finished the President smiled and said Im inclined to agree with you The man departed glowing with satisfaction and goodwill goodwill good good- will toward A few minutes min utes later another caller calIer discussed the same subject taking subject taking the opposite opposite opposite site stand When he was through the President smiled and said Im inclined to agree with you The visitor took his leave flushed with success Mrs Roosevelt who supposedly heard both conversations criticized the President How could you do that to those men she ob ob- served It is not only unethical unethical- but it is unwise politically smiled and said Im inclined inclined in in- to agree with you The Magic Lanterns Far and away the film of the week is the sponsored Battle of Midway in color the scenes of Jap havoc make you full of fight The ragged effect you can ean blame on the bombs which jolted the camera right off its perch Its 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 Mi Mi- nor Ray Milland and R. R Benchley Bench Bench- ley chip in and it all keeps you laughing out lou loud |