Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muddy brooks some soldiers would break discipline, stoop and guzzle the water-nothing else could be had en route. The fields were barren and deserted, the houses shuttered and hollow. Once we saw a hunchbacked cripple spading his garden. In one village a blind peasant sat on his doorstep amidst the empty houses of his neighbors and listened to the plodding shuffle of passing troops...
...Artists and Sculptors Institute. Bracketing her with Cinemactresses Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth and Jane Russell, the Institute called Sylvia one of the "most exciting women in the history of motion pictures." Claude Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture, found it was true what they say about eating aboard trains these days. En route to Mexico, unable even to reach the dining car, he sent a telegram ahead to Texas Agriculture Commissioner J. E. McDonald, asked for twelve sandwiches, six pints of milk and six bottles of soda pop to be delivered during the Austin stopover...
...Debussy: En Blanc et Noir (Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, duo-pianists; Columbia; 4 sides). Late, comparatively poor-quality Debussy, principally interesting for the quaint way in which the war-saddened composer (who died during World War I) surrounds and satirizes a Lutheran hymn. Performance: good. Recording: good...
Back to Retreat. By this week the German defense had again begun to waver. The retreat was resumed, in somewhat better order. Seven Allied columns went after them, en route for the next major Allied objectives. One was Ancona, one of the finest ports on the Adriatic, where ships to Dalmatia and Yugoslavia could find good harbor. Another was the Tyrrhenian port of Leghorn, already echoing to German demolition charges...
Holy Cow. In Detroit, Fred Howe, charged with violating a city ordinance by bringing cattle into the city in mixed lots (two cows and a small calf), got the case dismissed when he explained that the calf was an act of God en route...