Wartime entertainment glare across radio and screen figures
Military experts say singing sellers are fighting soldiers as army hit kits and top songs set the mood. NBC stars and radio personalities like Kay Kyser構, Martha Raye, Carole Landis, and Gene Kelly influence war propaganda trends while studios eye major actress shifts and new film projects amid wartime production.
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Moliers
Fred Waring
Fairman
Mark Ymow
NBC
Lanny Ross
Ganny Dorsey
Connie Boswell
Mary Howard J. Bronson
Gry Salter
Kate Smith
Guy Ymbardo
Wartime Meat Menus for Pork Loin and Stew
Home economists advise plan meals ahead and use low heat to reduce shrinkage. Three meals from pork loin roast include roast, a pork salad, and scrapple. Meat stew offers meals such as leftovers turned into pies and Scotch Pancakes. Variety meats like heart and liver are encouraged with creamed sweetbreads and liver spoon cakes.
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America
National Live Stock and Meat Board
Minute Make Ujgas By Gabrielle
The oily skin needs a lasting makeup routine. Cleanse with soap and water then rinse. Press an ice cube on throat and face then spray with mild cologne or astringent. Blot dry and apply powder. Finish with dry rouge and brushed eyebrows. Apply light eyeshadow with fingertips.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Weather School at Chanute Field trains observers and forecasters
At Chanute Field Illinois two weather schools educate students for post graduate courses in weather forecasting. Training emphasizes wartime needs with charts data and calculations guiding air mass movements. Weather certainty shapes bomber missions and even gas attack safety in chemical warfare.
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Chanute Field
Ill
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
England
Germany
Europe
Side Panel Dress and Leather Craft From Rag Bag Remaking Tips
A home craft piece suggests refashioning a dress with side panels using contrasting fabric, adding pockets and a belt. Create belts from old leather purses by linking pieces, and fashion laced belts with ribbon. Make leather buttons from an old purse and reinforce with glue or snaps for decoration or light use.
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National Recreation Association
Western Newspaper Union
What to Do By Phyllis Belmont
Listening is praised as a vital conversational skill. Active listening requires attention alertness and genuine interest while avoiding personal questions and self focus to fill gaps and ask relevant questions.
Four Marine pilots down a dozen Zeros at Guadalcanal era air combat
On Guadalcanal Henderson field four Marines accounted for twelve Japanese Zero planes in two days over Munda New Georgia. Ed Zielinski Milwaukee First Lieut. Kenneth Kirk Barrie Major Yost Princeton and Joe Cannon Gladstone are named with scores of one three six and two Zeros respectively.
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Henderson Field
Guadalcanal
Munda
New Georgia Island
Ed. Zielinski
Milwaukee
Wis
Kenneth Kirk
Barrie
Yost
Princeton
N. J
Joe Cannon
Gladstone
Mich
Who's News This Week Highlights Major Ruth Streeter and Norman Littell
Major Ruth Cheney Streeter named director of the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, flying since 1940 and active in recruiting, aviation committees, and Camp Dix affairs. Norman M Littell, assistant attorney general, credited for safeguarding wartime real estate deals, saving substantial fees and commissions.
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York
Ruth Cheney Streeter
New
Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
126Th Squadron
Army Air Forces
New Jersey
Defense Council
Major Streeter
Morristown
N. J
New Hampshire Society of Colonial Dames
Camp Dix
Dix
Marine Corps
Lillian
Frank
Henry
Thomas W. Jr
Army
Thomas W
Red Cross
NE College
United States
Norman
Littell
Sam Yisey
Maine
Sam
Mr. Littell
D.S.C
Seattle
Wabash College
Oxford
Harvard
Washington University
Indianapolis
Ind
Record of Harold Dewey Smith as wartime budget director
The piece profiles Harold Dewey Smith chosen by a Democratic president and confirmed by a Supreme Court justice to compile the war’s administrative history. It notes his background from Kansas to Michigan, Navy service, and marriage, describing him as deliberate and careful with budget estimates, including that the war costs exceed a billion dollars weekly and one in every 102 Americans is on the federal payroll.
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UDGET
Harold Dewey Smith
Supreme Court
Smith
Frank Murphy
Roosevelt
Mr. Smith
Michigan
Kansas
University of Kansas
Detroit
Washington, D. C
Arlington
Noted Male Needleworkers Through History
The passage argues that needlework is not exclusively feminine, citing George Washington Henry VIII and his court and David Windsor as examples of men who knit or sewed. It frames male sewing as a historical and social fact rather than a stereotype.
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George Washington
Henry the Eighth
David Windsor
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Attack Byight
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Ann Savage
Wright Guy
Bill Tuttle
Donna Reed
Metro
Miniver
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America IN Action
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Delos W. Lovelace
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