Word: au
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweet-faced, velvet-voiced Singer Maxine Sullivan, the darling of nightclubs, schoolboys and college youths, last week found a new, choicer audience. Sweet-swinging such ballads as Barbara Allen and Who Is Sylvia?, café-au-lait-colored Miss Sullivan was the cream of a "Coffee Concert" in Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...complete the good week for the Hemisphere, the Republic of Haiti also announced withdrawal of its consuls from German-held territory, deprived Nazi consuls in Port-au-Prince of all privileges "for internal and international reasons...
...first of these was Au Fil de l'Epée (translated as The Philosophy of Command), which advocated individual initiative on the part of commanders instead of the traditional French system of fighting according to plan. Vers l'Armée de Métier (The Army of the Future) went even further in breaking with French tradition...
...called "official singer" for the U.S. survivors of the International Brigades of the Loyalists. Singer van der Schelling is backed by an "Exiles Chorus" directed by Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans). Some of the songs-the Spanish Joven Guardia, the Italian Guardia Rossa, the German Thaelmann-Bataillon, the French Au Devant de la Vie (music by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich)-were composed during the Spanish War. Most of them are in rough, plodding march time. The one which gives the album its name was composed by a German, Eberhard Schmitt, in the camp at Gurs. Its chorus, translated (not quite...
...summons came in a radiogram from the Navy to her master, young Captain Giles Chester Stedman of U.S. Lines, who is also a commander in the Naval Reserve. He was ordered to cut short the cruise, cancel the stop at Port-au-Prince, cut the stop at Havana from 48 hours to one (presumably to let former King Carol of Rumania and Playmate Lupescu disembark), put in at Newport News, Va. for refitting. The spume under America's forefoot widened and whitened as she picked up her feet and shook herself out of her cruise pace. On radio...