Natives' Return

Back from trouping the Pacific was 50-year-old Comedian Joe E. Brown, grey-haired and 15 lb. lighter, home for a rest. Father of the late Army Air Forces Captain Don Evan Brown, killed in action, the crater-mouthed clown had been diligently gagging for the armed forces for more than a year, had given as many as ten shows a day. He had pretty well covered Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands, was the first entertainer to reach South Pacific advanced bases. Of his isolated audiences he reported: "Even when they couldn't hear me they'd laugh."

Back from a month's concert tour of England was Violinist Yehudi Menuhin with a different report. The entertainment at the camps there, he said, was too "light and trivial . . . the soldiers need inspiration, need more than a joke"--serious music.

Back from a five-and-a-half-week tour of seven South American neighbor nations was Henry Agard Wallace, who had traveled by many conveyances, but most notably by handcar. After a railway-car breakdown in Ecuador the Vice President had transferred to the railgoing seesaw, shed his coat, hoisted his sleeves, doggedly pumped and sweated for three miles.

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