Who's News This Week Highlights Beatrice Patton and Australian wartime leaders
Mrs. Patton broadcasts to French women from short wave while her husband commands in Africa. Beatrice Ayer Patton, famed author and army wife, mingles military influence with social life aboard their schooner and at Hamilton mass home. Dedman drives Australia’s wartime austerity, shaping industry, labor, and civilian effort amid global conflict.
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York
Boston
Beatrice Ayer
American Woolen Company
Ayers
Beatrice Ayer Patton
Hamilton
Mass
West Point
Holding the Line on Guadalcanal and the Litvinoffs
A feature on the Guadalcanal campaign and the Litvinoff family moving between Washington and Moscow. It recounts Admiral McCain on air battles, supply runs, and the brave resilience of American crews, pilots, and ships. Also notes Ivy Litvinoff’s return to Russia with grandchildren and a lifelong writer’s habit.
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Darby
Joan
Litvinoffs
Washington
Moscow
Foreign Ministry
Ivy Low
London
Anthony Eden
Litvinoff
Beagles
Guadalcanal
Army
Navy
Marines
McCain
Henderson Field
John Alderman
Lunga Point
Tulagi
Espiritu Santo
Hollywood stars and rising talents dominate film and radio
Jane Powell, 14, under MGM contract, stars in Song of the Road while serving as Edgar Bergen’s leading lady on radio. Ruth Warrick, 24, builds a varied screen career from Citizen Kane to Journey Into Fear. Alan Carney finds success with a trained hen in Gangway for Tomorrow. Rosalind Russell prepares to portray Nurse Kenny in Elizabeth Kenny and Barbara Stanwyck faces Double Indemnity. Patrice Munsel lands a 120000 contract. Wilfred Pelletier scouts Chicago singers. Alexis Smith and Dolores Moran named Benny’s leads in The Horn Blows at Midnight. Alan Ladd returns to lead in And Now Tomorrow. Billy Halep visits CBS Let’s Pretend.
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Hollywood
Jane Powell
MGM
Charles R. Rogers
Charlie McCarthy
Edgar Bergen
Oregon
Deanna Durbin
Franchot Tone
Corp
Billy Halep
CBS
Flowered Rag and Rag Made of Rags
The article describes making a braided rag rug with a flower medallion, and suggests variations such as two medallions joined with a braided handle as a knitting bag. It notes materials, sewing tips, and that the design comes from BOOK 8 listing thirty-one projects from scraps. price 15 cents and an address follow.
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Curtin
Edinburg University
Gallipoli
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Iraq
India
France
Australia
Milk Producers of
Victoria
Melbourne University
America
WNN
Resi
Collier's Weekly
United States Navy
Badoglio
U. S
Pietro Badoglio
Italy
Rome
Women’s Auxiliary Reserve
Coast Guard
Boston Harbor
Greenland
Arctic
Norman Thomas
U. S. Army
William Hall
Air Transport Command
Robert Murray
Ilion
Godfrey Ludlow
New York
West
Inia Vale Mn Newspaper Union
Ruth Warrick
Joseph Cotten
Joan Carroll
Pat O’brien
Alan Carney
RKO
Rosalind Russell
Nurse Kenny
Elizabeth Kenny
Minneapolis
Kenny
Miss Kenny
Warner Bros. Pictures
Army Emergency Relief
Irving Berlin
Barbara Stanwyck
Fred MacMurray
Bill Wilder
Paramount
MacMurray
Marian Shockley
Nikki Porter
Helen Lewis
Marian
Patrice Munsel
Metropolitan Opera
Air
Met
Chicago
Wilfred Pelletier
Patrice
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
King Features Syndicate
Weck
Begoodrich
BOM
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