The Magic Lanterns and Wartime Film Notes
Notes survey The Two Bodies Betty Grable and Victor Mature star in Footlight Serenade a lively screwball style film with Jane Wyman Jane Gleason and John Payne. Irene Dunne shines in Lady in a Jam while Patric Knowles and Ralph Bellamy provide light comedy. The Army piece Wake Island and broadcast humor mix with radio patter and the V for Victory series. Rex Stout and Mary Elizabeth Plummer offer fiction as Atlantis Monthly promotes its Hazelton authors. headlines from The Front Pages reference Vichy and Pelley while Edward G Robinson and Detective Broderick exchange banter about crime and cops.
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Betty Grable
Victor Mature
Patric Knowles
Ralph Bellamy
Wake Island
Aleutian War Winds Drive Alaska Highway Plan
Charles A. Singler surveys the Aleutian campaign's toll and the strategic push to complete a northern highway. He notes 10,000 Japanese on Kiska, U.S. air and sea efforts, and Brig. Gen. Hoge's leadership in building a road from Edmonton to Fairbanks to speed munitions and troops to the Far North.
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Kiska Island
Japan
U S
Aleutian Islands
Dutch Harbor
Kiska
Attu
Aggatu
Narukami
U. S. Navy
Solomon Islands
Son of Heavens
Tokyo
America
Aleutians
Alaska
U. S
MacDonald
Arctic
Donald MacDonald
Alaskan Highway Commission
Pearl Harbor
Burma
Dawson Creek
British Columbia
Alberta
Rockies
Sam
Fairbanks
Edmonton
Seattle
Anchorage
William Morris Hoge
Colorado River
Pavea
Grand Junction
Cole
North Sixth
Nelsons get tough policybackfires in Washington
The column reports on Donald Nelson pressuring to fire Guy Holcomb of the Small Business Administration. Holcomb resigns amid Nelsons overreach. It notes Holcomb’s sharp results for small business and cites counterpoints from a Senate traffic of Alaska defenses, airmen, and wartime logistics. It also recounts rumors about Harry Hopkins yacht and a North Carolina congressman aiding a constituent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Nelson
Donald
Washington
Guy Holcomb
Justice Department
Small Business Bureau
Nelson
Holcomb
WPB
Attorney General
Atlanta
United States
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Happy Chandler
Kentucky
Mon Wallgren
Rufus Holman
Oregon
Alaska
Pearl Harbor
Alaskan
U. S
Aleutians
Umnak Islland
Navy
Freuhauf
Detroit
Harry Hopkins
Connecticut
Harry Freuhauf
Capital and Labor United in Modern Industry
A columnist recalls an Atlanta union meeting where typographers urged higher pay and shorter hours, arguing that capital and labor must partner in industry. He envisions a millennial era where both sides collaborate, with unions seeking practical gains rather than narrow power. He also notes royal impressions in England and warns against postwar hardship by planning markets for farm and industrial products.
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Atlanta
International Union of Stereotypers and Electrotypers
George V of
England
Mary
Princess Mary
United States
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M. Gross
Charlie McCarthy
Roy Shield
Victor Borge
Poland
Rex Stout
Brothers In Congress
Frank Sullivan
Gropper
Mrs. Willoughby
Mary Elizabeth Plummer
Atlantic Monthly
Graybeard
Broadway
Harry Thompson
Cosmopolitan
Sioux City
Constance Moore
Vichy
One Agem
the Mirror
Oscar Ewing
Pelley
R. I. Gannon
Fordham
Roosevelt
China
Russia
Great Britain
Edward G. Robinson
Dinty Moore
46Th Street
Johnny Broderick
Broderick
Halifax
Fdr
Vorse
U.S
Kiska Isle
Charles A. Singler
Union
Catherine Archipelago
North Pacific
Kamchatka Peninsula
Umnak
Unalaska
Iceland
Beas
Aleutian
Catalina
Army
Empire of Japan
Sen
M. C. Wallgren
Burma Road
Washington, D. C
John H. Folger
North Carolina
Wright A. Patterson
Western Newspaper Union
Gerald Lascelles
John
Mrs. Cale
Cale
Philippines
Europe
BIOUX
Bionx City
Iowa
Lima
Ohio
Kent Blades
Jeor Double &A
Arthur
Bugs
Baer
U. S. Marines
Jesse M. Chase
Salt Lake City
Boise
Pocatello
Ogden
Grant E. Hayes Co
Studebaker Distributors
Main, Salt Lake
Aircraft Factory Training Division
Streator-Smith, Inc
Intermountain
Lyman
Main
Salt Lake
W.N.U
Prince Albert
Adv
Dean
Doan
Doans
WNU
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