Radio: G.I. Nightingale

The sweetheart of World War II was on her way to another front—the Caribbean. When Frances Langford gets there the next week or so, she can expect the same kind of admiration she has inspired in homesick doughboys from Alaska to Sicily. No other female entertainer in World War II can touch it. "She knows just how much sex to pour and still be dignified," is Bob Hope's explanation. General Eisenhower, who has misgivings about women entertainers at the front, was so moved by her impact upon his North African troops that he thanked...

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