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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patrice Munsel, 20-year-old Metropolitan Opera soprano, was the principal tea leaf in a teapot tempest of publicity just before she made her West Coast debut at Hollywood Bowl. The United Press reported the Met aswoon with shame because pictures had been published of her in a bra-suit. Manager Edward Johnson denied it, peered at the picture, purred, "She looks nice." Clucked Singer Munsel: "I thought it made me look a little bulky in spots...
Five weeks before Dday, ABSIE (the American Broadcasting Station in Europe) made its debut to the opening bars of Yankee Doodle. Last week, to the tune of The Star-Spangled Banner, it took its leave. ABSIE, operated by OWI and SHAEF's Psychological Warfare Division, had earned an honorable discharge for valiant service, but few Americans had paid it more than passing notice...
First-line flyers reported that Japan had a new defense fighter, faster, more maneuverable and better handled than anything they had seen before. Promptly the U.S. answered by unveiling the Grumman F-7F Tigercat, soon to make its combat debut with Marine fighter squadrons and Navy supercarriers. The Tigercat has twin engines, climbs a mile a minute, rates in the 425-m.p.h. speed class. For Japan the planes came, kept coming, and would continue to come...
Critics, somewhat to their surprise, found Sperry's Carnegie Hall debut not at all bad. As one of them admitted after an earlier concert: the musicians do a much more professional job than the Boston Symphony could, turning out gyroscopes...
...west central Okinawa burst into their barking din. A brisk enemy air raid was on. Suddenly, to the amazement of Marine pilots and mechanics, a Japanese twin-engined bomber, its wheels still retracted, glided in and scraped down the runway to a fairish belly landing. This was the debut of the Giretsu branch of Japan's fantastic suicide warriors...