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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1944
Page
13
Wartime humor column snippets from camps and towns. Jokes about GI romance, bus slogans, fashion norms, and everyday soldier life appear through bits about guards, sailors, and postal postings. Readers encounter light quips on romance duty and discipline in a breezy home front voice.
A fragmentary page excerpt blends cafe hosting and saloon ownership with social gossip. It mentions John Christo, a former Pavilion Royal host, buying a Lexington saloon in the 50s and chasing laughter soup, plus brief notes on alimony, landlords, and cultural figures like J Kennedy and Karen Cooper.
William Bendix earns profits from film work arranged by Col. Roach who rents him to producers. Bendix rose from a New Jersey grocery job to star in The Hairy Ape with Susan Hayward and John Loder while Roach accumulates a large, steady fortune from his Hollywood talent rentals.
New York dispatch reports the Irving Subway Grating Co has designed a burglar proof cellar window for postwar homes. Made of steel like airplane landing mats it combines security with ornament, promising an all night effort for intruders and a loud escape if attempted.
William Bendix stars in his first radio series The Life Life of Wilesee a look at war workers and their families debuts today in a prime slot. The Hollywood origin feature includes his wife and Uncle Baxter with rise Stevens and Kostelanets program guests also on the schedule today across CBS WMT NBC and other networks.
Hour by hour listing of religious talks music and news across stations WHO WMT KXEL WGN and more. Includes Reverend Pietsch Bible hour prophecies Aromatic shows and orchestra pieces with afternoon and evening time slots and station identifiers.
A concise note reports a late evening meet at 9 15 p m with D Courtne listed among participants. Details are partial due to OCR.
Boris Karloff headlines the Iowa theater presentation of Arsenic and Old Lace with Jean Adair Jack Whiting Ruth McDevitt Donald MacDonald and Malcolm Beggs in supporting roles. Curtain time is evening with tickets available at the Iowa theater box office.
Keesler Field Biloxi Miss United Press reports thirteen days adrift in a lifeboat with 20 of 23 companions dead of starvation sharpened Pvt Crosby Nazil Aracaju Brazil born 23 man aims to serve against Nazis. A German sub sank the ship Crosby served as steward last year. After rescue he stayed in New York until drafted and now studies English to qualify as a paratrooper.
To keep the battery from draining during start up, run lights and radio only when the engine is running. If you must start and idle, conserve power by disabling nonessential electricals until the motor is running.
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