People, Oct. 21, 1940

With her mother and father looking on, poised, 14-year-old Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, spoke to child evacuees at home and overseas: "My sister is by my side," she concluded. "Come on, Margaret." Princess Margaret Rose, 10: "Good night, children." Elizabeth: ". . . And good luck to you all."

To spur the U. S. air corps' recruiting drive Charlie McCarthy turned up with Edgar Bergen at March Field, Calif., offered a combination peashooter-bombsight "guaranteed to hit a cuspidor at 30 feet," was sworn in as honorary master sergeant by Colonel Benjamin G....

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