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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1943
Page
2
Ira Wolfart describes the New Georgia campaign with a focus on jungle warfare, rear-guard actions, and brutal mud and rain. He recalls landing against 5,000 to 7,000 Japs, the crouching jungle, the knee-deep water, and 15 days of continuous combat with little rest.
Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, aged 58, continues flying and commands marines with a storied record from Guadalcanal to Bougainville. Boeing chief engineer Edward C. Wells, 33, advances the B-29 and Flying Fortress project, rising from P-26 work to chief engineer, Boise-born and Stanford-educated. Norway mourns General Otto Ruge, a wartime hero who refused exile, led forces, and awaited Allied aid as Norwegians resisted in 1940.
Perry Como, Columbia network baritone, notes fan mail from war plant workers, soldiers and sweethearts as he prepares to appear in Kitten on the Keys with 20th Century Fox. He recalls leaving a barber shop in Youngstown, Ohio in 1935 to sing with Ted Weems and later marry his childhood sweetheart. The piece lists several actors and radio figures, including Farley Granger, Louise Larabee, Everett Sloane, John Nesbitt, Georgia Carroll, Kay Kyser, Anne Elstner, and Sid Lanfield, and cites studio savings from fewer clinches in Let's Face It.
The Falcon visits a fashionable girls school to solve two mysterious endings. Jeann e Newport, 18, lands a film role in Song of the Open Road after an audition singing E above high C. Roddy McDowall learns riding for The White Cliffs of Dover and wins riding prizes. Greer Garson appears in Mrs Parkington growing from nineteen to eighty four, glamorous throughout.
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