Backer of Blimps and Other Wartime Figures Highlighted
This week's feature profiles Rear Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl, a Lakehurst Navy veteran championing blimp use for anti submarine defense and his return to the air station. It also traces E. Lee Marshall’s long career in the War Food Administration and notes urban development efforts led by Metropolitan Life under Frederick H. Ecker, highlighting a lineage from early baking to corporate leadership.
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Metropolitan Life. Insurance Company
Frederick H. Ecker
East Side
Manhattan
You will be missed and the bayonet tale
A poem about missing someone in love contrasts with jokes from British troops in Tunisia. A bayonet story unfolds when a trader’s son carves a fake blade to honor a dying father, ending with a sergeant’s demand and the soldier invoking a final blessing. The column also puns on rackets and MGM mishaps.
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Tunisia
Tommy
Sights You Don’t See From a Bus on Broadway
An old New York street tableau captures a diverse city scene. A posses peddler elderly woman wears a blue star badge like a wartime emblem. A Hickory House regular arrives with his own potatoes. Midtown pedestrians study a sign painter near the Follies stage as chorus girls pass by. A West 48th Street stretch between 5th and 6th offers a mix of wares from a hand grenade to a country home via wholesale vendors.
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Guerrilla Girl in Serbia recounts Chetnik oath and frontline courage
In a first person account through The American Magazine, a female American joins the Serb Chetniks in Belgrade amid Axis advance. She details oath taking, secret intelligence work, and the pivotal March 27 decision when Serbia declared war on Germany, altering the Balkan balance and delaying German plans for Russia.
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Perchanatz
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Jugoslavia
Europe
Germany
British Empire
America
Asia
Russia
Hitler
Moscow
Volga
Stage Screenyradio in wartime theater scenes spotlight
Virginia Vale reports on Hollywood notes from Western Newspaper Union highlighting stage and screen set pieces. The piece surveys The More the Merrier and other films and stars, noting map reading in Victory Through Air Power and career shifts for actors like Freddie Bartholomew Dick Stark and Jack Carson.
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Walt Disney
Studio Notes and Cast Chatter from the Front
Martha Raye visits the Let's Face It set with tips for Bob Hope on his overseas trip and hints at a return soon. Jack Benny will star in The Horn Blows at Midnight with scenes shot in Heaven and New York. The Pentacle is renamed Conflict while Five Graves to Cairo remains puzzling. Stage 29 on the Metro lot is renamed Ratoffgrad by the Russia production crew.
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Bob Hope
Jack Benny
Heaven
New York
Metro
Gregory Ratoff
Russia
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