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Show MPS P ILd M a. fM ..... .fl.W.'.U bervic.) jLjMi Lint From a Blue Serge Suit: Before Morton Downey departed for overseas he was" the only entertainer enter-tainer invited to perform before all Dhiefs of staff in Washington. Gen. Hap Arnold threw it. . . . Tony Martin, the screen star thrush, is now a staff sgt. with the Army in France. . . . Eileen Barton, Sinatra's Si-natra's new canary (and so easy on the ears, too), is making beautiful melodies with an up-and-coming swoon-singer named Tad Bruce. . . . Radio reports a 400 million dollar "take" for 1944. Highest Income In-come in radio history. . . . Wendell Corey (he plays the lead opposite star Gertrude Lawrence in her new touring show) had a tiny part as a sergeant in "Follow the Girls." . . .' Wonderful little Margaret O'Brien is waiting permish from her movie boss to do her own radio program. Heading a panel of quiz kidlets. . . . According to an OPA bulletin there are 30 billion cigarettes in stores in the U. S. right now. The Intelligentsia: John B. Kennedy Ken-nedy is one of the few news analysts who can take the teletype's prosaic reports and turn them into words that march like armies. He steamrollered steam-rollered American bigots and left them flatter than their heads. . . . CBS reporter Bill Downs' deft description de-scription of captured Nazis: "They have the look of men caught stealing." steal-ing." . . . Criticism over the film, "The 7th Cross" (alleging it portrayed por-trayed "good" Germans), astonished author Helen Deutsch, who points out that the action in it takes place in 1936 when the underground Germans Ger-mans were trying to purge the nation na-tion of the wicked, etc. The good Germans, she adds, included the Manns, Einsteins and other refugees. refu-gees. . . . Pert Lee Carson, the INS girl correspondent covering the war in Europe, Inherited the spot . yjyted by the ailing Richard Tre- S-'is. She's with the 1st Army. Richard was invalided home after more years of war than most men would care to have any part of. . . . Irving Berlin, his own music publisher pub-lisher since Sept. 15th, has, already sold 700.000 copies of two songs: "White Christmas" and "Always." The latter is 18 years old. Quotation Marksmanship: H. G. Wells: Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. . . . Anon: Snow slowly laundering the countryside. . . . The quote recently credited to H. Broun, "Experience is what men call their mistakes." should have been credited to O. Wilde. Then we are informed that Musset once penned: "Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows." . . . Alan Gale: Was it the Atlantic Charter or just so much Atlantic chatter? . . . Bob Burns' advice to after-dinner speakers: Stand up to be seen, speak up to be heard and shut up to be appreciated! appreciat-ed! .. . Eggleston: Journalism is organized gossip. The Wireless: We liked the reunion re-union with Roy Shields' show. This listener hasn't had an opportunity to enjoy it for some time. It remains re-mains A-onederful, displaying silky music trimmed with literary lace continuity. . . . Ethel Barrymore's regular spot on the dial proves radio ra-dio drama has emerged from the knee-pants stage, despite soft soap operas. Amazing how ordinary dialogue dia-logue glitters when it comes in contact con-tact with Ethel's magical voice. . . . Within three hours one station stabs the air with 25 singing commercial Bmellodies. One dose of that and you turn into Marconi's sworn ene my. . . . Wheezes about shortages skidded into deserved oblivion recently, re-cently, but the ciggie shortage spoiled it. If you recall the cracks about sugar, cofTce, meat, et all. you know all the cigags. The Story Tellers: For those wrapped in the illusion that fame comes on a silver platter. Pic mag traces careers of various celebs and proves no one climbs the ladder of success without picking up splinters. . . . In the Atlantic Monthly. V Ltppmann examines the stumbling blocks that might become tombstones tomb-stones for the pust-wnr world. You don't have to wait for tomorrow's Events to confirm his warnings just rend totlay's front pages. . . . Ira Wolfort turns in a vivid Job of translating trans-lating soldiers' emotions with his typewriter via Msquire. A GI's longing long-ing for homo is something so great "it takes the mind up as with teeth and shakes It and bangs It and rakes it with nehing." . . . Drew Pearson gets MS imuh out of ten leaves as Aladdin got from his lamp. His forecast In Cosmopolitan of Al lied diplomatic troubles ill 11115 has already come true. The nliiRio Lanterns: A olnriniitU B "Winged Victory." Is looming into town lomled with ilnimntli' .ilorkbush'rs exploding emotional dy nainlto. This Is n stirring trllmle to Ami'iicn's 4 mile -n-iulmitr men who luivo iiimle the skies mifo for -lit lui'S. I .oii may Ihey llyl . . 'Hollywood Canteen" displays a i i iTing Jamboree nmnlnu the divei lion uaiiuit from uh to lug. Limine lie llliii's mighty mimes Is till thi .iritlso It nt'oils. They orovldo tin luwit polent rxninplo of itimiseineiii ilm'O Uiuglis were Invented. . . |