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German secret agents gather their in formation by eyes and ears, communicate the more urgent bits by radio. One of them, a stripteaser, cultivates an innocent soldier in the 95th Brigade. She easily learns, one night backstage, that his brigade is moving. That is only a beginning for German Intelligence Headquarters, which promptly assigns two men to the job of discovering the English plan and destination. From scraps of information, each almost meaningless in itself, these spies deduce the imminence of a commando raid and its objective, a submarine base on the French coast. Result: the English are trapped when...
Giant Lancasters, attacking the northern industrial heart of Italy, left "colossal" fires blazing at Turin and made their first swoop over Mussolini's naval base at La Spezia. R.A.F. bombers by night, U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators by day, flew over western Europe. They gave Hamburg its 95th plastering. They roared through the valley of the Ruhr. They swarmed over the U-boat base at Lorient, where ten acres of the naval arsenal have now been reported destroyed. Apparently unable to pierce the eleven-foot roofs of the concrete sub pens, the Allied bombers have concentrated on softer targets...
Thus Knoedler's (celebrating its 95th birthday) last week celebrated Royal Cortissoz' 50th anniversary as an art critic (for the New York Herald Tribune) with an exhibition of the pictures the twinkling old gentleman liked best in the whole...
...Hymn writers," declared the New York Times last week, "are the real popular poets in the U. S., and composers of hymn tunes the popular composers." Point: it was the 95th birthday of a great U. S. hymnist, sharp-eyed, goateed George Coles Stebbins. He wrote the tunes of Take Time To Be Holy, Saviour Breathe an Evening Blessing, There Is a Green Hill Far Away, some 1,500 others. Hymnist Stebbins sang with the great Moody & Sankey revival team, whom he outlived by many years. He never counted up his output, said: "It's nothing to boast about...
Officials of the Hasty Pudding Club announced that one performance of their 95th annual show, "One On The House," will be set aside especially for undergraduates, with tickets at reduced prices. This undergraduate night will be held at the clubhouse on March...