Big Town to Return as Radio and TV Spotlight
Hollywood notes review upcoming TV and radio hits with Pawley as Steve Wilson in Big Town CBS series and NBC brings Amos n Andy back. Julia Sanderson and Kate Smith are profiled among industry shifts as film, radio, and stage projects unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D Pawley
Hollywood
Pawley
Jesse James
Steve Wilson
The
Illustrated Press
CBS
Kate Smith
Ted Collins
Rudy Vallee
Abbot and Costello
Tommy Riggs
Henry Youngman
Kate
America
Marines In South Pacific Fight With Doctors On Call
Doctors accompany marines from Guadalcanal to Tanambogo running improvised sick bays in dugouts and huts. Lt. A. A. Pringos heads a bay near Petersburg Virginia. 11 navy corpsmen assist. They see 75 to 100 patients daily, many treated on site, some evacuated to hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim G. Lucas
South Pacific
Marine Corps
Guadalcanal
Tulagi
Tanambogo
A. A. Pringos
U.S.N
Washington Street
Petersburg
University of Virginia School of Medicine
New Orleans
Navy
Pringos
United States
Proper wedding reception card wording guidance
The piece explains engraving a reception card enclosed with a wedding invitation. One form notes reception at five o clock Smart Set Country Club R. 8. v. p. Two extra lines may read And afterward at Townhouse Rittenhouse Square R. I. v. p. A third variant invites guests to the wedding breakfast after the ceremony at the country club and requests a reply. Ledger Syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smart Set
Country Club R. 8. v. P
Townhouse
Rittenhouse Square
John Smith
Smart Set Country Club
Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Long Way Around But It Really Works
Fort Oglethorpe GA WAC Pvt. Elsie M Wong relays letters from Hawaii to her brother in China. Wartime censorship requires mail travel east to Wong before returning west to China due to Hawaii to China restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Oglethorpe, GA
WAC
Elsie M. Wong
Hawaii
China
Pvt
Wong
Corpsmen Aided Marines At Bataan War Camp Medical Unit
The sick bay moved from a field tent to a 60 by 25 foot open shack screened against flies and mosquitoes. Lieut. George W. Fry, the camp dentist from Wheaton Illinois, staffs appointments every 30 minutes from 7 am to 5 pm, 17 days in advance. Corpsmen work 24 hours a day, easing doctors and aiding Marines ready to act when needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Fry
Wheaton
American base in India buys Indian beef and poultry
American soldiers in India are fed beef, chickens, and eggs gathered locally. The subsistence branch of the quartermaster corps buys Indian beef on the hoof, processes it in packing plants, and supplies troops with first rate meat at low cost. Chickens and eggs are also procured locally with native workers overseen by American sergeants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Orient
Gripsholm
New York Harbor
Mormugao
Portuguese India
Japan
Karl Detzer
India
United States
Quartermaster Corps
Army Service Forces
Medical Corps
Chicago
Union
Fall bonfires waste valuable manure for 1944 crops
Urbana Illinois warns fall burning of grass clippings leaves and garden residues destroys manure resources for 1944 crops. Experts advise composting with a mineral mix of ammonium sulfate and limestone to speed decay and provide nutrient rich artificial manure by spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urbana
Ill
M. D. Appleman
Department of Agronomy
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Tricks for Teens War Stamps and Rickrack Trends
Readable segments describe teens crafting with rickrack trim on garments and accessories plus wartime thrift tips. Notes cover rickrack jewelry, station wagon sills, sweater initials, and border writing, followed by encouraging war stamp campaigns and teen fundraising ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rickrack
Tricks
Minute Make Ups By Gabrielle
Tips for beauty routines including matchmate lips and cheeks, lash separation with a toothpick, and boiling hard water for shampoo. Vinegar rinses darken light hair, lemon rinses brighten. A lemon juice rinse uses one squeezed lemon per pint of water. Ledger Syndicate. WNU Features.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Do Your Own Laundry In This Tennessee Store
DYERSBURG TENN. Homer Pressler installs washing machines in his furniture store. Patrons wash their clothes then take them home to iron. A waiting lounge is provided for those using the machines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Dyersburg
Tenn
Homer Pressler
Pressler
Meantime in the haystack city notes and musings
A collage of satirical excerpts and editorials from Washington bureaucracy parody, referencing Little Boy Blue, a 1943 act, and a U S Cow Sheep and Haystack Administration. The text blends humor about signal systems, haystacks, and a mock census with commentary on public figures and postwar hopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Boy
Blue
Washington
Congress
L. Boice Blow
Little B
Bloo
Little Boybluh
U. S
The War Brings Changes In Household Craft
The piece urges adapting tools and furniture to wartime needs with curved chair parts and tufted cushions. It notes women and men learn to make chairs when springs are unavailable. Mrs Spears provides an actual-size pattern for curved sections, pattern 265, with complete construction directions and materials, priced 15 cents.
Aerial Photography Covers 90 Percent of Farm Land
The U S department of agriculture photographed 2 000 000 square miles or 90 percent of the nation s farm acreage to aid land use planning for crops. The operation produced 1 300 000 air photos at a cost of 8 000 000 dollars, a fraction of ground surveys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Collier's
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