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Last week came word that Prince Michael had turned the Axis kingmakers down flat. Said the Prince: "I am a Serb. As a Serb I shall never betray King Peter." After refusing the job, said London reports, the puppet-elect was promptly interned in Germany...
...Davis ' moves out of Manhattan's 46th Street into a series of low-grade dates in Pennsylvania in the early '20s, winds up with a topflight, ill-paid hot outfit in Chicago. His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about marijuana. Send...
...Emperor also granted an audience to another businessman-turned-politician, Masatsune Ogura, Minister for Coordination of War Economy and a far more cautious character than Yosuke Matsuoka. This might, or might not, betray a lack of confidence among the Son of Heaven's advisers in the policies of the Foreign Minister...
...Charles de Gaulle: "With the Hun in Paris, Bordeaux. Lille, Reims and Strasbourg, and with the Italians pretending to dictate their will to the French nation, there is nothing else to do but fight. ... To treat with the enemies, to accept their control, to cooperate with them, is to betray the fatherland...
...jargon. His short novel Pal Joey consists of the magnificently illiterate letters of a nightclub crooner and hoofer, an attractive, low and decidedly rubbery heel, describing his greedy world of mice and moola (women and money). Perhaps the most laudable thing about this character is that he might not betray the mice for the moola-but one can't be sure. Joey has now become the combination hero-and-heel of a bang-up George Abbott musi-comedy, a profane hymn to the gaudy goddess of metropolitan night life...