Word: bari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Licia Albanese, 31, plump, handsome Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Joseph A. Gimma, 37, Wall Street stock broker, also from her native Bari, Italy (although they met in Manhattan in 1940); both for the first time; in Manhasset, L.I. The bride confessed that she was heeding the marriage-v.-career advice of an ex-opera star friend: "Our art is ... only temporary. All of a sudden one day it will be gone, and then you'll be sorry you didn't marry...
...Suspicion? After months of pulling & hauling, Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz agreed to let some 80 UNRRA officials supervise distribution of UNRRA food, medicines, etc. in Partisan Yugoslavia. The negotiations were between UNRRA and Tito spokesmen, but everyone concerned (including UNRRA's men waiting in Bari, Italy for permission to cross the Adriatic) knew that the question was a test of Soviet intentions at the working level...
...typical misunderstanding. Tito's men, like nearly everybody else, were confused by existing relief arrangements. The Yugoslavs were protesting about preliminary relief proposals of the inter-Allied military authorities at Bari, had blamed them on UNRRA. But UNRRA had made no deal with Tito and could not act in Yugoslavia without Yugoslavia's invitation. It had neither personnel nor organization to undertake more than general supervision of supplies...
Churchill acted. A shake-up occurred in the Yugoslav Government in Exile. The new Premier was Dr. Ivan Subasich, a Croat, who was in Manhattan when the summons came. In Bari, on the Italian coast, he sat down with Tito, roughed out a working agreement. The exiled Gov ernment recognized Tito as head of his provisional administration inside Yugo slavia. Tito agreed that at war's end Yugo slavs would get a chance to vote for what ever kind of government they wanted. Meanwhile, the King might continue to call himself King...
...snatches Goodman's clarinet, is chased to a tenement home where his factory-worker brother, Johnny Birch (James Cardwell), is improvising on the trombone. Overheard by Goodman, Birch is hired for the band, goes on tour, gets vamped first by the band's singer, Pat Sterling (Lynn Bari), later, by Trudy Wilson (Linda Darnell), a luscious New York socialite. Birch tries to start his own band, fails miserably, goes back to a factory job. But Goodman and Trudy have not forgotten him. At regular intervals, Goodman & band offer welcome distraction from this quavery little plot with such tunes...