Widow Delivers Worries Across Generations In Wartime Tale
Julia McFarlane mourns Richard who vanished in World War I and searches for traces with her father-in-law. Twenty five years later her children Ric and Jill face new perils as Ric serves in World War II and Jill shows interest in Spang Gordon. Julia fears loss again and confides in Dave Patterson, a family friend. Spang and Jill attend a dance.
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Julia McFarlane
Richard
John I. McFarlane
Ric
Jill
Spang Gordon
Julia
Air Corps
Dave Patterson
Spang
Dave
John I
Dooley
Richard McFarlane
Dancing on the edge of war and memory
Jill McFarlane and Spang share a moonlit drive to a club as war shadows loom. Dooley and Dave debate the dead and the living, while Jill clings to a brief hour of romance and the hope that happiness can survive the looming conflict.
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Spang
Jill
Ric McFarlane
WAC
John I
Ric
Gossipy Radio and Stage Notes From 1947 to 1960s
Virginia Vale surveys show Janet Ames costume glamour in The Guilt of Janet Ames while Palm Springs rest precedes filming. Ezio Pinza signs with United Artists for three years and Marcia North joins The Bishop's Wife pageant. Bergen and McCarthy plan Mexico City broadcast March 16 with Ray Noble and Anita Gordon.
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Ezio Pinza
Metropolitan Opera
United Artists
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Mexico City
U. S
Ray Noble
Anita Gordon
Hollywood radio and film notes preview stars and shows
Harry James appears in a top sequence of A Miracle Can Happen with Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda. The Low er Basin Street series may return to the air as a Dinah Shore springboard. Major night shows run on about 180 stations, while ABC Sum n Abner reaches 265 outlets. Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, recording together for five years, will co star in a new film Road to Rio.
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Harry James
Jimmy Stewart
Henry Fonda
Lower Basin Street
Dinah Shore
Bing Crosby
Andrew Sisters
Churchill Had Pressure Chamber for High Altitudes
The only personal air pressure chamber known is that built for Winston Churchill in 1944 to enable him to take plane trips at altitudes forbidden by his physicians. Made of heavy cast iron, the chamber is ten feet long and weighs two tons with an upper half raised by a motor. It includes a couch, cupboard, book shelf and several ash trays.
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Winston Churchill
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