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...Eliot '10, prominent American-born poet whose Morris Gray poetry reading last Wednesday had to e postponed, has rescheduled the reading for 4:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Sanders Theatre...
Vera-Ellen, daughter of American-born Anne Revere and Costa Rican Coffee Planter J. Carrol Naish, is slated to marry 100% Costa Rican Cesar Romero. But Romero wants to marry American Comedienne Celeste Holm, and Vera-Ellen falls for Romero's American friend, Dick Haymes. All of this becomes involved enough to last for nearly two fiesta-flurried hours because the young people are slow about telling their parents-and each other-the bad news...
Pass Out Bats. Kennedy and Treasurer Jimmy Adichi, 25, American-born Japanese veteran of the Italian campaign, soon ran into trouble. Apartment superintendents, paid by established companies for exclusive rights to peddle milk in their buildings, barred the Servicemen's Dairy. Kennedy threatened to turn them in to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He had shrewdly suspected that they had not reported their take on their income tax. The superintendents gave in. When the C.I.O. tied up all other dairies in a strike, the Servicemen went right on delivering. The union threatened violence. Kennedy passed out baseball bats...
...Grown Wagnerian. At first by default, and increasingly by merit, Helen Traubel has become the greatest Wagnerian soprano singing in the world today. She is the first great soprano at the Met to sing Wagner and nothing but (Flagstad sang Beethoven's Fidelia). She is also the first American-born Brünnhilde and Isolde who didn't study at the Wagnerian shrine at Bayreuth. Until 1940, when she sang in Canada, Helen Traubel had never been out of the U.S. She has never crossed the Atlantic...
Sidewalk Start. When Dong was five years old, his American-born father got tired of running a hand laundry, moved the family to Hong Kong. There he ran a successful department store while Dong chalked his early works on the sidewalk out front...