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...Sergeant Delphia E. Garris: "It's just something that has got to be done. We have got to lick those bastards in order to get out of the army. That's our main thought-get rid of the Germans in order to get out of the army...
They number 19 young, talented sing ers, who expertly shake 19 operas-in-English out of their sleeves. Newest Phila delphia stunt is to have a tenor sing the incredible quasi-male operatic roles usu ally warbled by women in tights-Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Siebel in Faust, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Prince Orlofsky in The Bat, Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann...
...amateurs who had been passively for Willkie in the days when his nomination was a political impossibility had found their voice. They would not have organized Willkie clubs, badgered Republican delegates, trekked uninvited to Phila delphia, if the voltage of U. S. political life had not been stepped up by Hitler's conquests. Nor would they have blundered ahead to do the impossible if Adolf Hitler had not plunged through the Low Countries into France...
...started congratulating not Thomas Kennedy but an obscure, conservative Pittsburgh law yer named Charles Alvin Jones on his tentative nomination than the excitement be gan. No reporters were present and most of them were unable to describe the scene in detail, but Thomas P. O'Neil of Phila delphia's rabid (pro-Roosevelt & proLabor) Record, wrote a graphic, if second hand account...
...Farnsworth idea seemed feasible, he put up money for experiments, got addi tional backing from officials of San Fran cisco's Crocker First National Bank. Hard-working young Farnsworth twice threw equipment worth $25,000 out the window, started over again. Finally successful demonstrations were made at Phila delphia's Franklin Institute. Philco Radio &; Television Corp. bought U. S. rights (not exclusive) to manufacture Farns worth equipment, has lately started an experimental laboratory...