Most Popular Boy

Here he is, folks. You laughed with him when he played the Marine in the movie Wake Island. And soon you'll see him in two years before the mast. He's Hollywood's magnificent mug. Well, I may not have looks, but I got brains.

Why I got brains in my head that I never even used yet. The American Meat Institute presents William Bendix in the life of Riley. The meat people of America, providing a great food for a great nation.

Three years ago this week, Pearl Harbor. Three years ago this week, the meat industry was called on to rush more than a million pounds of meat to San Francisco docks to replace supplies destroyed by the japs.

It was on its way in eight hours. That was meat declaration of war, America, and meat has been in the fight ever since. And now on behalf of all those engaged in supplying meat to the nation, the American Meat Institute presents the life of Riley.

Well, it's lunchtime at the Los Angeles aircraft plant, where Chester A. Riley employs his talents as a riveter. At the moment, Riley's own private debating club is in session, the members being Riley and his co-worker, Jim Gillis.

And the topic for today is their usual one, the respective virtues of their sons. Say that again, Gillis. OK, but I already said it four times. My boy, Egg Boy, is the most popular boy in the John J. Boskoitz Jr. High School.

It's wonderful what fathers will do for their children. They'll even commit perjury. Les and Riley are you insinuating that I am the start and the fact? No, I wouldn't go that far, Gillis. You're just allergic to telling the truth.