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Paris certainly does not compare with London in warlike appearance. Practically no sandbags. The "blackout" is a blaze. No reassuring balloons pattern the sky, no robot aerial guard, fewer cars, of course. Gasoline is strictly rationed. The Ritz barman told me that they now feed alcohol to the cars...
...Chicago last season the Federal Theatre Project launched the big moneymaker of its brief career with a rousing, all-Negro Swing Mikado. In Chicago last week an all-Negro cast kicked over another Gilbert & Sullivan lantern, hoping to start another blaze of swing with a Tropical Pinafore. But the show went over on its rich, husky Negro singing rather than as a shagging Harlemquinade...
...BLAZE OF NOON-Rayner Hep-pens-tall-Alliance...
...first time since 1799 Palm Sunday and St. Patrick's Day came together, there were ominous whispers in Eire that "big events" were in the offing. The outlawed Irish Republican Army was expected to plant a few more bombs in Great Britain. Northern Ireland might blaze with revolt against British rule...
...cause of the blaze has not been definitely established, but evidence seems to point to a carelessly extinguished cigarette. "I did smoke a cigarette in the morning," admitted Lerner, "but I can't remember what I did with it." Deputy Chief Church, of the Cambridge Fire Department, explained that the fire had probably been smouldering in a chair for about three-quarters of an hour before it was discovered...