Never Follow a Banjo Act

Sauspense, and the producer of radios outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William N. Robeson. There's no business like show business, so it's no wonder show business is full of superstitions. Never whistle in the dressing room, never give the curtain a line of a play until dress rehearsal.

Don't send your laundry out if Monday night business is bad. And of course, the sentimental daddy of them all, the show must go on. History has yet to record a trooper trepidation enough to ask, why?

But our story concerns itself with a show that did not go on, and the theatrical superstition which states, never follow a banjo act with a banjo act. Listen, listen then, as one of the greatest show people of them all, this Margaret Whiting stars in never follow a banjo act, which begins in exactly one minute.

Memo on medals, interesting information about our military awards and decorations. In the past, a person receiving a medal for valor was also awarded additional pay, not so today. Winners of the Medal of Honor, however, are entitled to receive a special pension of $100 a month when they reach the age of 50, and all enlisted personnel who have won the Medal

of honor the distinguished service cross or the Navy Cross are authorized by law to have their retirement pay increase 10%. Although the custom of awarding medals is as old as recorded time, the United States has issued comparatively few, and these rather late in our history.

Our present system dates back to the Civil War, almost 100 years after we had emerged as a nation. The Bronze Star, one of our newest medals, was authorized in 1944 for anyone in the United States Armed Services who distinguishes himself by heroic or meritorious achievement, not involving an aerial flight in military operations against an armed enemy.