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Show The Midnight Express: Walt Disney's "Victory Through Airpower" film, taken from Sever-sky's Sever-sky's book, is being blocked by bras3 hats in Washington . . . Because it reveals what everyone can savvy at a glance that planes are the best weapons today . . . Bill Stout, who designed the first Ford planes, is working on what they hope will be the flivver of the air after the wa-r. A tiny hundred h.p. job as simple to manipulate as the Model T . . . Mr. Whiskers just collared a woman agent here whose operations were right out of a spy film. Posed as a Navy nurse with all the proper apparel, ap-parel, etc. Worked the midtown bars, talking to servicemen, and had even married three of them. Bob Burns, the ex-farmer, has done a series of recordings for the Dep't of Agriculture, to encourage the growing of peanuts. They are christened: "Nuts to you, Adolf!" . . . The cigar rationing for troops at Guadalcanal: Two cigars weekly. week-ly. In Africa they get four . . . Although he's been in the Army a year, Carol Bruce sends her manager man-ager 15 per cent of her wages. The sets for the film, "Attack by Night," will be replicas of actual Norwegian towns with OWI supervision super-vision . . . Hollywood's veteran cameramen, now in the Army Signal Sig-nal Corps, are taking six-week refresher re-fresher courses. They must "learn" how to hold a camera "correctly." And to develop negatives! . . . Mary Pickford will adopt children, according to coast buzz . . . The Mills Brothers start a trek back to the Big Time with a choice spot in "Reveille with Beverly" . . . Geo. Lowther, who does the "Superman" program, was the first page boy hired by NBC. The Navy reminds girls that a WAVE or SPAR may request other assignments besides paper or desk work. The duties are varied. Aero-grapher, Aero-grapher, for instance, or radio communications, com-munications, storekeeper, parachute rigger, and so on . . . Elton Britt, a singing cowboy, recorded "There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere." Made him a high bracket man. To date: 900,000 records. rec-ords. . The Wireless: R. Harkness, the Washington reporter for WEAF, was puzzled by the to-doodle about Rus- ! sia not advertising the aid from i her allies. Harkness revealed that j TravJa, the Soviet newspaper, pub- j lished a fll report only recently . . . j The Hays cflice ruled that Fascists j in filrr.s shouldn't have American accents. ac-cents. He should listen to the Quis- I ling shortwnvcrs, whose accents are as American as hot-dogs . . . You'll j twirl your dinis a long time before j you catch anything more H:p-H;p-Htirray than Paul Robeson putting the b:g bnritor.e to "Ballad for Americans" . . . The crossfire act ; banned over by Crosby and Hope would have boon good for a dozen straight weeks at the Palace on i Broadway. i I The Magazines: The war has I landed right in Vogue's lap. That mag tells its flabbergasted readers, mostly ex-motorists, one of the grimmest truths that it's hard to read on a bus. Gad. sirs, is this America? . . . New Republic's Manny Earber tags Saroyan's flicker, flick-er, "The Human Comedy,' a chocolate choco-late soda made out of words . . . Newsweek scrubs away all the Congressional Con-gressional hullnballoo nbout bureaucracy bureau-cracy nnd states it is all a build-up for the '-U elections . . . The startling star-tling rise of Juvenile delinquency is the problem threshed out by Ella Winter in the current Collier's. The antidote for the wave of knee-pants criminals, the author reports, is more playgrounds, dancing activities activi-ties nnd other healthy forms of re ' lnxation to keep them occupied. He-mcmbor He-mcmbor Mrs. Roosevelt wanted to do that, nnd was howled down by some "enraged" Congressmen? It happened In front of the New York Sun whrro some Newspaper Guild pickets were parading nnd distributing dis-tributing leaflets. A police car drove up, nnd n tough - looking Sarge got out . . . The pickets expected him to break tip the line nnd seize the leatlets, ns had happened so many times before. But he merely brushed by and went into the Sun otllccs . . . When he came out pur .-led pickets nsketl; "Aren't you gonna do nny-thing?" nny-thing?" . . . "No." he said, "They said you were blocking the sidewalk. I told them I managed to get Into the building. They wanted to know ulnml the leatlets, nud I reminded them nbout the Eroedom of the l'l ess." Jimmy Cnsncy, according to a letter let-ter bo wrote to the Norwegian Em-bnssv, Em-bnssv, revealed that h Is part Norwegian, Nor-wegian, It will ln published In ft book by nn of the Noiweginn diplomats diplo-mats , . . Ever since Cagnrv married, mar-ried, he bus given his wifn something some-thing gi eon for St. Eat lick's Pay. This year the gift, ns green ns was A stack of gov't war bonds . . . New -spMpet s, which have debunked wild Illinois of clothing lationing, haven't been lead nppaiontlv Stoics omuplain of "clot lung urns" |