Radio: Heroes for Hire

The Blue Network, the N. W. Ayer ad agency and Hires Root Beer finally got their war heroes straightened out last week. For three weeks a new Blue show called Heidt Time for Hires (Mon., 7 p.m., E.W.T.) has featured honorably discharged servicemen who aired their war records, said what they would like to work at and where. They were supposed to get job offers before the show ended. They did. The trouble was that at first nobody took pains to investigate the applicants thoroughly.

A technical sergeant who said he was Stanley Hawrylytz turned up on the first show with...

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