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Back in 1942, several Negro G.I.s at Fort Dix were bored with the kind of entertainment the Army put on for them and decided to make some of their own. The idea was catchy. Before long, they swelled from a quartet to an octet, then to a chorus of 16. By the time Lieut. Leonard de Paur joined the regiment in Arizona, the 372nd Infantry's Glee Club had 55 members, were singing war songs and Negro spirituals with a fair amount of polish, and the Army finally put them on special duty, to do nothing but sing...
...ship for the U.S., where he worked his way to a LaSalle Extension University law degree by dishwashing, coal mining and boxing. Zik is owner and editor of Lagos' West African Pilot, which mixes inflammatory anti-British editorials with a heartthrob column much franker than Dorothy Dix's. (Recently a Nigerian youth wrote in to ask which of the four girls he was living with he should marry.) Zik, whose following includes several million Nigerians, says he wants immediate independence, but he may have his tongue in his cheek. One of his supporters, Ojukwu, a wealthy transportation magnate...
...having admission trouble. According to the rules, new applicants merely had to be peace-loving, but that left plenty of room for disagreement. Either an international Dorothy Dix would have to define the difference between true love of peace and mere flirtation; or else a contemporary Henry Clay would have to find a new kind of Missouri Compromise to preserve U.N.'s uncertain balance...
...make its report to the Security Council next week. There, the differences might well deadlock the admission proceedings. But, reported the New York Times reassuringly: "U.N. circles hoped [for] a certain amount of horse trading"-which would be in the tradition of Henry Clay, if not of Dorothy Dix...
What the management chooses to call the "cohit" is none other than old Richard Dix, sharp of eye and tongue, as "The Mysterious Intruder." S.A.K...