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General George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, made this conception very clear last week. General Marshall addressed the Governors' Conference at Columbus, Ohio, but he might have been addressing himself to the Russians, and to their doubts that Britons and Americans comprehend the realities of all-out war. Said...
...show, must have dreamed back to the great days of the New Amsterdam Theater, where the late, great Florenz Ziegfeld made summer official with a new Follies. Perhaps memory winged back to the Follies of 1917, with W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Fanny Brice, Bert Williams, Walter Catlett, Peggy Hopkins (later Joyce) in the cast. Or to the Follies of 1919, with a cast hardly less impressive, and such tunes as Tulip Time, Mandy, and the nonpareil Bert Williams' You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake...
...dimensions of the place, the session is expanded to more than double the size of the last one. Definitely coming are, hold your breath: Coleman Hawkins and Pete Brown again; Teddy Wilson's Band minus Teddy but including Edmund Hall, clarinet, Benny Morton, Trombone, Johnny Williams, bass, Sidney Catlett, drums, and Emmettt Berry, trumpet; Frankie Newton and some of his old band, such as Ernie Trooman, and possibly Vic Dickenson...
...dimensions of the place, the session is expanded to more than double the size of the last one. Definitely coming are, hold your breath: Coleman Hawkins and Pete Brown again; Teddy Wilson's band minus Teddy, but including Edmund Hall, clarinet, Benny Morton, trombone, Johnny Williams, bass, Sidney Catlett drums, and Emmett Berry, trumpet; Frankie Newton and some of his old band, such as Ernie Trottman, and possibly Vic Dickenson...
...Army's side of the case had already been well stated by Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall, who says the quotas were drawn up with all problems, including shipping, firmly in mind (TIME, Dec. 21). Two more rebuttal points were presented by Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson: 1) "It is ... essential to obtain superiority . . . the Axis powers and their satellites have under arms 569 divisions. This is considerably more than we and our British and Russian allies have." 2) "We are training men in 1943 to fight in 1944. Our training program must contemplate...