Word: canteens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salvation Army mobile canteen was the first relief unit to reach Coventry, got there while the bombs were still falling...
...started work on her first picture (Eddie Cantor's Thank Your Lucky Stars), broadcast her own show (Dinah Shore in Person), sang in Eddie Cantor's Time to Smile broadcast, and a few times at Army camps, appeared at the opening of Hollywood's "Stage Door" Canteen. For her it was a comparatively torpid seven days. The week before, in one day she put on seven soldier shows...
...Jana, she was described as a former friend of the ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm. She is 32, dark-haired, olive-skinned, cat-curved, and is the 18th woman to be dubbed "special friend" of the fickle Führer. Out of their jobs at Philadelphia's Stage Door Canteen marched Jane Kendall Mason Hamilton, famed Washington glamor deb of 1927, and her husband, ex-Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton. The trouble: wife Jane had disapproved 1) jitterbugging, 2) letting married women dance with the soldiers. Other canteen officers overruled...
...Blithe Spirit; and John Francis Royal, 56, NBC's burly, explosive vice president in charge of international broadcasting; she for the first time, he for the second (his first wife died in January); in Manhattan. She came here from England after nearly a year of driving a mobile canteen through bombed areas, scored a personal triumph in her first U.S. appearance. Her make-up in Blithe Spirit: dead grey, from head to foot...
...year-old son of Britain's Princess Royal, nephew of George VI. Icy denials came from Buckingham Palace, but the girl's mother confirmed it. The bride-to-be, if bride she becomes, is slim, dark-haired, 17-year-old June Morris, who works in a factory canteen. "It doesn't matter to me who he is," she said in a declaration half out of Grimm, half out of Noel Coward. "I can't help his being the son of an earl. I fell in love with Gerald before I knew who he was when...