Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Serge Koussevitzky, famed Russian-born conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, received a touching "Bravo!" Wrote his 80-year-old sister Anyuta, from Russia: "Brother Serezha! Our family has had plenty of trouble. Our dear [brother] Nicholas perished in Leningrad in 1941 at the hands of the Fascist butchers. Only thou and I are left, my beloved brother. ... I have heard that thou, with thy work, also art helping our common cause, the destruction of our common enemy. . . . All my life I have been proud of thee and I shall be proud of thee until my last days...
...Dear Russia...
...Gaulle pointedly reminded the U.S. and Britain that France has another friend. Said he: "Toward the west the French want to be a center of direct and practical cooperation while they want to be permanent allies in relation to the east-that is to say first in relation to dear and powerful Russia." De Gaulle's loving phrase in French: ". . . la chère et puissante Russie...
Free Poles? Father Orlemanski went to a Moscow radio studio. In Polish, he addressed the Poles in Poland: "Dear people of my fatherland. . . . We are Slavs, and allied Poland and Russia will be the largest force in the east. This union will bring great good both to Poland and Russia and will secure peace for ourselves for hundreds of years. . . . Long live a strong, free, independent, democratic Poland...
...Most routine offering was Show Business (RKO-Radio), a clearance sale of pre-World War I vaudeville, featuring Eddie Cantor, George Murphy and girl friends Constance Moore, Joan Davis and Nancy Kelly. Samples: the principals singing and dancing I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad; Dinah in blackface; a four-voice rendition of the Sextette from Lucia, with Murphy (as a matador) and Cantor (as a knight-at-arms) munching bananas; Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis impersonating Antony & Cleopatra. The story concerns George Murphy, a wolf, who has heart trouble with Nancy Kelly...