DECEMBER, 1943 THE DIAL PAGE THREE "Most Blitzed" War Reporter Is New Name Selected Merrill Mueller, Now in Italy ForHLonelyWomen ..

NEW YORK-When you hear chutists and swamp-troops con­ "Today's Children" Becomes as you so orten do, "This is lvler- verged on an outnumbered but Title of Dramatic Show rul 1v1ue11er reportmg from North courageous garrison as oil der- Heard Over KGBX Africa," ao you wonaer who he ricks blazed and refineries blew By CARL FOX 1 1s, wnat quautres and experience into the sky. I escaped with the have Drought him to you as a Australians to Java, only to take A woman is only a woman and \ KGBX-N.BC foreign correspon- part in the evacuation of that a good cigar is only a smoke ( to Hi, Fans! The second season ctent ·t island, after which our ship had misquote somebody), but a good of wartime football has reached Just the other day we were Merrill Mueller-a young man to dodge Jap cruiser squadrons title is really a better mousetrap the end of the schedule. For the watch1'ng a - few flakes of snow who has crammect the aaventures clear into the Antarctic waters h b b and worth its weight in star dust. high schools, it as een a anner flutterl·ng about 1·n the gr_ay af- ot a met1me mto hrs 'L.( years- before making port in Australia. was Dorn m New York City, I roamed Australia, New Z ea 1an d So, Authoress Irna Phillips is season, and for the most part ternoon light, and somebody re- January 'L.l, l::Jlti, the son of Cari and several islands of the south- c h angmg· th e name o f h er sena,· 1 t earns o f th e KWTO -KGBX area marked, "Br-r-r ! 1 don't like J. 1vme11er, well known artist ana west Pacific before my first visit Lonely Women (NBC, five-a- were quite well matched. With Winter!" Well, as · a matter of 11rnsi:rator. J:!.xcepung tor the first home in two years." week, 1 :15 p. m. CWT) to Today's a few Bowl-Bound exceptions, the fact, even though I was born and rew years, lYlernH uvect in west- He went back to London as Chidren, effective December 13, college teams have stored the raised in the North Country, win- port, Connecticut. He earnect a chief of Newsweek's London Bu- 1943. moleskins 'til Spring training. ter weather doesn't have the ap- umversity scholarship out left reau and since then has joined co11ege m his tirst term and went the National Broadcasting Com- Today's Children, title of one Briefly recapping the season : peal to me that it used to have,- to a Butralo paper as reporter. . , of Miss Phillips' early serials, is sports writers elected the Notre pany's staff. From North Africa, back yonder on that hilly Wiscon- He was us. '!he same year he supplanting the current name of Dame team as the top team in the t sin farm. But say, were we happy Jornect ,, 1·ng ·c·eatur·es .synctrcate,· he reported to KGBX-NBC liS en- the program because the writer n. .._. s th r· 1 t g O f the nation, and running a very close t hen, and when a good old-fash- at 'L.O, was labor anct · aviat10n er on e ·ma s a es · feels it is more apt. The present 1 ioned snow storm came whooping speciaust tor !N.S in New York African campaign. H e landed in serial was inaugurated in war- second for the mythical nationa th th t over the hill, piling the whiteness city. At ;1,1, he was Washington Sicily wi e firS wave of time (June 29, 1942) and Miss championship were the proteges high against ·the nouse, pra:ct1c- \ corresponaent and at' ;1,;1, was sent United states troops. strafed by Phillips, with an eye to the post- of Coach Don Faurot, the former ally blotting the barn and the to .l:'ans as a foreign correspon- enemy planes while landing, Muel- war era, feels that the new title Missouri Tiger mentor. His Iowa I th o ther f arm b ur·1d· mgs from our ctent on the INS stafr. ler was forced to sink into e w1·11 more closely f1't the cond1·- Naval Pre-Flighters lost only to sight! You bet we were happy, water holding his typewriter over tions following the war. "The for several reasons! IJ;_ might Given a roving assignment, he hrs' h ea d · H e b road cas t t O A menca. change in name will not affect Coach Leahy's Ir1'sh · Probably the mean that we would have to stay coverect .t;urope, missing only 'th e frrs' t eye-wr·t ness accoun t f the present format of the show," most t h ri 11 ing game o f· t h e season Czechoslovakia and H.ussia. When th · · ° home from school the next day, war _broke out, he was sent to e mvaswn. she · says, "and this is more than was that Irish-Seahawk game, if it snowed hard enough, or it the ]!·rench front. Then a quick Mueller has survived more than a revival of a former title-it is and the greatest upset was Great might mean we could take our tour of the Balkans anct ltaly, 1,000 air raids, nearly 700 in Lon- recognition of the fact that the Lake's win over the Irish. High slects up to the top of the hill yon- returnmg to }'ranee Just as Mus- don and 72 in Malta. He is said title fits the present story like the der, and come sliding down the solini enterect the war. l-ie left to be the "most blitzed American glove fits the hand." praise should go to the Lions of 1ong, s t eep s l ope, pas t t h e h ouse, .Paris the mght before the Ger- war correspon d en t . H e h as b een Lonely Women, or Today's Chil- Lou Little at Columbia Univer- anct 'way down to the willows by mans occupied it; evacuated to thrice hospitalized and on June dren, is the dramatic story of a sity, even though they failed to the creek, and then, looking ahead Tours, anct thence to Bordeaux 18, 1943, received the Order of woman's world in wartime. Stars register a win all season. Colum­ a few days, as 1 am right now, a where he shared a seven hour the Purple Heart from President of the program include Betty Lou bia was not blessed by service familiar old gentleman, with long scoop of the l< 'rench armistice. He Roosevelt for injuries received in Gerson, as Marilyn Larimore; personnel permitted to . play the white beard, a jolly face, and fur- livea through the Battle of Bri- the Tunisian campaign. Patricia Dunlap, Bertha Schultz; tr·mmed coat of the brightest red Gridiron game, but they contin- 1 ' tain, although he lost two apart- He is currently reporting the Virginia Payne and Murray would come sailing across our ments and was hospitalizect by war in the Mediterranean area, Forbes, Mr. and Mrs. Schultz; ued their suicidal schedule in childhood world in his sleigh, one bomb blast. . having advanced with the Ameri- and Wilms Herbert, Keith Ar- orct er t o h e 1P · k eep th e spor t a 1·1ve. nd pulledand called by ''lVlerryeight swift Christmas" r ei eer, to 1,he next P h ase m· h.rs k a 1e·do1 - can forces from Salerno and on mour. Guilbert Gibbons is the '!'he Sixth Annual Ozark Bowl is all mankind. Yes, there were a scope o f a d ven t ure rs· b es t t o ld m· across the Volturno River. director. now history, but let me say in hundred joys of Winter back Merrill lvlueller·s own words. passing, every fan I 've talked there on the old farm, but none "I saw Ritchie's breatless sweep with agrees that the lV10untam so great· as the coming of Santa across Northern Iibya; then Claus. streaked for Singapore, missing Grove .t-'anthers and the lv1onett the action by an eyelash but Cuos disp1ayea the fmest game ot Well, this screwy old world has dropping into the middle of the footoall mgh scnool patrons 11ave taken a crazy turn the past few fight for '?umatra, while para- years, and here we are, slugging ever seen. u111y a smg1e penalty rt out in a great battle against was imposect throughout the game t he greatest torce of evil creation About Joe Parish anct tnat for excessive timeouts. has ever known. And here is * * * * Christmas, just down the weeks When Joe was seven years of a short piece. I am remembering age, .he was wounded in a hunting This is the month when the something which we are all too accident. Today a .22 caliber rifle great game of passing anct pivot­ prone to forget. I believe that it bullet still lodges in his neck as a ing comes into its own. Alreacty was Mother who first told me, result of the accident. It's too we have reported on several out­ and all these long, weary years, close to the jugular vein for an standing basketball tournaments, I have never forgotten, "When operation to remove it. This ex­ Christmas comes on, I like to re­ plains why Joe, just 24 years of some or which are listed withm member that it is not merely a age, was turned down every time the outdoor season schedule. Un holiday, a day for giving and re­ he tried to get into service. He the air recently l discussed the ceiving gifts. I always try to offered to enlist in all branches, extensive sports program of Hus­ remember ' that it is a Birthday, but they always said "no", despite s1a. That, 1 belleve, to . a great the birthday of the most wonder­ the fact that he is certainly a aegree rs a reason tor the .Keas· ful Being Who ever lived. And healthy-looking specimen. success on the battlet1elas of tne then I stop to think that before present war. :::i1mi1ar1y, our suc­ He came, the whole world was in When lo the Manger kings and cess at the present moment a1so darkness. His birthday brought shepherds came, may be accounted for. 1·m not Light, the Light of the World, to actvocating that every one must men. And what a Christmas She looked not on them, heard be an aci:ive participant in one them, said no word, Present that is!" of the more vigorous sports, but Good friends of the "Country Her only joy the blessed sleeping just taking the role of a specta­ Road", you and I have walked . Babe tor develops certain qualities es­ this way for many years, some­ Thal snuggled lo her breast: and sential to the well-being of the times not knowing nor caring when they went nation. There are more people which way we went. But always, seeing basketball games each Kept all these things within her when C h r i s t m a s comes, this year than any other smgle sport, thought of .my Mother's comes brooding heart.'' tor there are more orgamzect bas­ home to cheer me and mine: So today, while the world is torn ketball teams of all classifica­ there is something besides the by war and hate, let us hold our tions. Fans, we're all in the world happiness of the day, the giving own children closer to our hearts, of sports, so let's see to it that and receiving of gifts; something and vow that this shall not touch Red-haired Julie Conway on Kay Kyser's KGBX-NBC "College we ''Keep 'Em Playing", helping deeper than all that, and sweeter them, and that the Prince of the coaches by finding transpor­ ol Musical Knowledge" heard Wednesday's al 9:00 p. m. and spon­ even than the song of the angels Peace may walk this way with us tation for their boys when sched­ above the Plains of Judea, is the always. sored by Lucky Strike, may well give lrosl-billen Easterners a twinge ules call for out-of-town games. dream of Mother Mary, as she Thanks for your fellowship of envy as she lounges in the Hollywood sunshine in her free And ,.-when they play at home, watched over the sleeping Babe. Down A Country Road. moments. Thal peasant outfit she's wearing looks right nilly on a take time out to go and root for :(es, in that hour, -Hugh M. Aspinw~II. gal with a ligure slre'amlined as Julie's, tbe team. It'll do you good.