Harry Hershfield was a veteran journalist and humorist. According to his Wikipedia entry, he was much in demand as a banquet toastmaster and was a panelist on the radio show "Can You Top This?" in which the panelists had to try to top jokes submitted by radio listeners. Earlier he had been a panelist on "Stop Me If You've Heard This One" where host Milton Berle would start a joke and the panelists would try to complete it before he did. It lasted until 1940 and returned in 1947.
Hershfield must have left his humor at home this day or maybe I am not attuned to what people found funny in 1946. His column "My Week" is a breezy scatter shot of items, anecdotes, plugs, gags and quips. none particularly laugh worthy. An example " Ask Truman: If you'd rather be right than President, what must you rather be than Vice-President?" Ha. ha.
Among the plugs in his column that day: the circus, the movies "Dragonwyck," "Murder in the Music Hall" and "Joe Palooka-Champ" (see movies), Broadway's "Carmen Jones" and "Call Me Mister" (see Broadway), the Ballet Theatre's production of "Fancy Free" and its stars Alicia Markova and Andre Eglevsky, and upcoming exhibits of contemporary illustration at Rockefeller Center and a collection of letters from Abraham Lincoln.