Foreign Newsreel

"London's night life," reported CBS Correspondent Eric Sevareid by short wave last week, "swirls along a few carpeted steps below street level. . . . The orchestra is good. . . . The food is only fair. . . . The atmosphere is phony and the gaiety is forced and unreal."

From Rome Winston Burdett reported: "I've been able to find only one place that would rate as a nightclub in New York. It's called the 'Crocodile,' and the membership comprises a few black marketeers with aristocratic pretentions, and a sprinkling of former film stars. . . . Rome's night life begins early, at 4 or 5 in the afternoon. . . ."

"Paris is a quiet place to spend your leave just now," reported Charles Collingwood, "and at night it's quietest of all. . . . The soldiers . . . walk along the dark and quiet avenues . . . and think that all those stories they'd heard about Paris night life were pretty exaggerated."

Such glimpses as these, from a handful of correspondents in Europe and the Pacific, have made CBS's Feature Story (4:30-4:45 p.m. E.W.T.) one of the bright spots of daytime radio. Five days a week, the correspondents report on such everyday trivia as food, women's clothes, theatrical highjinks, soldiers' preferences in souvenirs, street sounds and smells, current gags and reading habits. These news sidelights carry the quiet impact of a newsreel, .the excitement of unvarnished history.

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