Mr Winkle Goes To War
Wilbert Winkle a 44 year old auto repair shop operator is drafted and reports to camp. He informs his wife Amy then leaves for service amid neighbors’ condolences and wife’s fears. At camp he undergoes a physical finding him slight in build.
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Wilbert Winkle
Amy
Evening Standard
Mr Winkle
Winkle enlists in Army amid bewildering change
Mr Winkle and Freddie Tindall join the Army after the draft and take oath at a reception center. He adapts to barracks life, endures inoculations and bed making, and ponders the deeper meaning of war as Freddie and Jack clash with a harsh drill sergeant.
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Casuily
Springville
Freddie
Jack
Mr. Winkle
Bedio
Mr Winkle
Amy
Czeiceskrawski
Wilbert Winkle
The
Army
Winkle
Tindall
Pettigrew
Czeiceskrowski
Pop
Freddie Tindall
Czeicheskrowski
Squibb
Odds
Ios
Ron
Burns
Mevant
George Burns
Gracie
Herbert Marshall
Paramount
Poodles Hanineford
Errol Flynn
San Antonio
Lanny Ross
Army Beultareant 2
Don Amache
Michael Romanom
Road of Life
Radio stars and programs highlighted in wartime shows
Western union summary notes radio writer Marc in as a leading air show creator and lists celebrities such as Betty Hutton Dinah Shore Gigi Perreau and Kate Smith program developments. It mentions Assignment Home a civilian life drama and Father Ambrose Hyland aiding Metro filming and the Good Thief Foundation funding prison benevolence.
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Virginia Vale
Western
Union
AX Marcin
Hollywood
Ambrose Hyland
Dannemore Prison
Metro
Good Thief Foundation, Inc
Princess Lines Pattern Promotes Flattering Morning Frock
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1242 offers princess lines for a trim morning frock with a rolled collar and pockets. Sized 34 to 48, it requires 4 1/4 yards of fabric and 1 yard of ribbon trim. featured among fashion notes and theater industry trivia of the era.
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Barbara Bell
Simple jumper frock with ribbon puff sleeves
A Gay style jumper frock described as easy to make wear and launder with a blouse that is simple to assemble. Sleeves feature puffed sections held by a ribbon drawstring and the neckline gathers are tightened by the same ribbon.
Telling Fake Fingerprints Difficult Even for Expert
A scientist showed that eight fingerprint experts could not reliably distinguish genuine prints from forged ones. Only three identified all four prints correctly, and they guessed on some. The five others misclassified more genuine prints as forged than forged prints as genuine.
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Collier’s
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Sergeant Czeiceskrowski
Alphabet
Mr Tinker
Tinker
Mr Winkie
Private Tindall
Lradio
Marcin
Barbara Britton
Ray Milland
France
Ray
Barbara
Betty Hutton
Twins
Dinah Shore
Gigi Perreau
Benedict Bogeaus
Eve Curie
Madam Curie
Kate Smith
Ted Collins
Abbott and Costello
Aldrich
Columbia Broadcasting System
Army Service Forces
Max Maroin
John Barrymore
Allyn Joslyn
Joslyn
Theater Guild
Marsha Hunt
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
New Montgomery St
San Francisco, Calif
Nue-Ovo
Nue- Ovo, Inc
Wells
Chicago
Kellogg’s
Quaker State
Cory
Tory
War Fund
National War Fund