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...escape. Still another new writer (World Battlefronts) was sent to London by the A.P. just in time to cover the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, later transferred to the New York Herald Tribune, reached Oran three days after the A.E.F. landed in North Africa. He covered the Casablanca conference, was with our troops when they went into action at Medjez-el-Bab, Gafsa, El Guettar and Fondouk, then marched into Tunis with the British First Army...
Paris operas, with their over lavish settings, are ideal meat for the color camera and although Nelson Eddy never was too appealing as an actor, he can roll that bartone of his. Claude Rains, of "Casablanca" fame, portrays the third violinist, and incidentally, the masked phantom. Eddy and the gondrame officer, Edward Barrier, put on a rather amusing and seemingly original Alphonse and Gaston performance at the mere presence of the budding opera star, Susanna Foster...
Magic Carpet. In a four-motor Liberator-type transport, the junketing Senators flew to the British Isles, to Casablanca, to Marrakech, Cairo, Basra and Calcutta, to Chungking (where they met China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek), to Australia, Guadalcanal (three days), and homeward via New Caledonia, the Fiji Islands, Honolulu and San Francisco...
Lieutenant-Commander Samuel E. Morison '07, professor of History now on leave to serve as official Naval historian, will give a special lecture before the entire Navy V-12 Unit at 7:30 o'clock tonight. His subject is expected to be the landing at Casablanca...
There were gags of all nations. Hope joshed the British: "Churchill certainly travels; he's been in Casablanca more than Humphrey Bogart." He ragged the Scots: "That blackout's wonderful; you should see the Scotchmen running around developing film." The real show, however, was for the Yanks, and he knew what they wanted: "Were the soldiers at the last camp happy to see me! They actually got down on their knees. What a spectacle! What a tribute! What a crap game...